Politics of Hunger

Politics of Hunger

Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840

Griffin, Carl J.

Manchester University Press

10/2022

280

Mole

Inglês

9781526167033

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: 'the unremitted pressure': on hunger politics
Part I: Protesting hunger
1 Food riots and the languages of hunger
2The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor
Part II: Hunger policies
3 Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism
4 Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects
Part III: Theorising hunger
5 The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor
6 Telling the hunger of 'distant' others
Conclusions -- .
Eighteenth century; England; Food riots; Hunger; Nineteenth century; Protest; Rural; Social policy; Speenhamland; Workhouse; Zero hunger