Seeking the Right to Food - Food Activism in South Africa

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

List of contents

1. Food activism and policy in South Africa; 2. A tale of food activism; 3. The case of Right to Food Campaign; 4. Rocking the boat? Mobilising for food security in South Africa; 5. Food (in)security and legal implications in South Africa; 6. The unfinished agenda: perspectives on South Africa's food (in)security; 7. Dispossession: reforming land in South Africa; 8. Ethical obligation to assist impoverished South Africans; 9. What is to be done: overcoming policy fragmentation in South Africa; Conclusion.

About the author

Bright Nkrumah is affiliated with the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his DPhil from the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and has published extensively on political contestation, minority rights, food (in)security, urban agriculture and democratisation.

Summary

Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study of collective action and food security in South Africa, presented alongside historical and contemporary case studies, proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action to address food scarcity.

Product details

• Authors: Bright Nkrumah, Bright (University of the Witwatersrand Nkrumah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781316519790
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51979-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political activism, Poverty & unemployment, Republic of South Africa, Food & society, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Cultural studies: food and society, Pressure groups & lobbying, Poverty and precarity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement