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Whose Hunger?
Jenny Edkins
其他書名
Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid
出版U of Minnesota Press, 2000
主題Social Science / EssaysPolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralSocial Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief
ISBN08166350649780816635061
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GUljpjS8F5YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. To the contrary, Jenny Edkins responds in this book: Famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom. A critical investigation of hunger, famine, and aid practices in international politics, Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape our responses.