The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations
Browse

Food Riots and the Politics of Provisions in World History

Download (625.53 kB)
report
posted on 2024-09-05, 23:13 authored by John Bohstedt
This paper compares the politics of provisions in: pre-modern England and France; famines in Ireland and India; ‘famine-proofed’ Ming and Qing China; Mao’s Great Leap Forward Famine; the IMF austerity riots of the 1970s and 80s; and the food riots of 2008, particularly in Egypt, West Africa, and Haiti. The point of such comparisons is not to construct a unified theory of provision politics, but to illuminate significant parameters that shape policies and conflicts over food.

History

Publisher

IDS

Citation

Bohstedt, J. (2014) Food Riots and the Politics of Provisions in World History, IDS Working Paper 444, Brighton: IDS,

IDS Item Types

IDS Working Paper

Copyright holder

IDS

Language

en

Usage metrics

    @ IDS Research

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Licence

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC