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dc.contributor.authorHossain, Naomi
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T13:12:17Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T13:12:17Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-18
dc.identifier.citationHossain, N. (2018) 'How the International Media Framed ‘Food Riots’ During the Global Food Crises of 2007–12', Food Security, 10.3: 677–688en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14359
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the framing of ‘food riots’ in the international media during the global food crisis period of 2007–12. This is an important issue because the international media’s overly simplistic treatment of food-related protests as caused by hunger leading to anger and violence, dominates public discourse, informing both global policy discourse and quantitative policy research into food riots. This paper draws on some basic analysis of a large news database to explore the effects of how food riots were framed in the international media. It confirms the overly simplistic ‘hungry man is an angry man’ thesis held across international media discourse as a whole. But it also notes differences within the media, and argues that those differences produce different effects depending on whether articles are intended to inform, analyse or advocate. Certain voices are silenced or subdued by the international media, but food rioters in the developing world appear to be treated with more sympathy than rioters in the North might expect, or than they receive in their own national media. Overall, the effect of international media coverage of the wave of food riots during the food crisis, particularly in 2008, was to indicate a global policy problem requiring global policy action. It therefore marked a political intervention on a global scale.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFood Security;10;3
dc.rights.urihttps://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IDSOpenDocsExternalDocuments.pdfen
dc.subjectNutritionen
dc.titleHow the International Media Framed ‘Food Riots’ During the Global Food Crises of 2007–12en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature and International Society for Plant Pathology 2018en
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12571-018-0802-7en
dc.identifier.teamPower and Popular Politicsen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0802-7
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