Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics -- Part I Protesting hunger -- Food riots and the languages of hunger -- The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor -- Part II Hunger policies -- Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism -- Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects -- Part III Theorising hunger -- The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor -- Telling the hunger of 'distant' others -- Conclusions
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2020)
