Politics of Hunger - Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, C. 1750-C. 1840

Informationen zum Autor Carl J. Griffin is Lecturer in Historical Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast Klappentext The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an 'unremitted pressure'. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. Zusammenfassung Systematically explores what it is conceived as ‘hunger politics’: the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Carl J. Griffin, Griffin Carl J.
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781526167033
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6703-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Poverty & unemployment, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Food security & supply, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800, Poverty and precarity, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Food security and supply