ISBN:
978-0-253-03836-4
,
978-0-253-03837-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 207 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Framing the Global
DDC:
339.46096782
Keywords:
Tansania Ländliches Gebiet
;
Hungersnot
;
Hunger
;
Subsistenzwirtschaft
;
Ernährung
;
Sicherheit
;
Nahrungsmittelversorgung
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Politik
;
Soziale Beziehung
;
Armut
Abstract:
In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with-rather than die from-hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and state extraction, Phillips studies hunger as a pattern of relationships and practices that organizes access to food and profoundly shapes agrarian lives and livelihoods. Amid extreme inequality and unpredictability, rural people pursue subsistence by alternating between-and sometimes combining-rights and reciprocity, a political form that she calls "subsistence citizenship." Phillips argues that studying subsistence is essential to understanding the persistence of global poverty, how people vote, and why development projects succeed or fail.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Subsistence Citizenship. PART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, History. Chapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood. Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun: Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of Subsistence. PART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of Subsistence. Chapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali: Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of Food. Chapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural Hunger. PART III: Subsistence Citizenship. Chapter 5 Subsistence versus Development. Chapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship. Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and Citizenship. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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