ERC Starting Grant · 2024
The Everyday Politics of Famine
Famines are becoming more frequent and deadly, with 250,000 people experiencing famine in 2022 and 35 million people being on the edge of famine. For decades there has been a scholarly consensus that famine is the result of political failure or design, and never solely the result of natural disasters. However, a political culture that makes famine politically unconscionable and that ends famine has not emerged. To understand why famines persist we need to deepen our understanding of famine politics; so far scholarship on the politics of famine has focus on national and international institutions, and the instrumental use of famine by actors and institutions. My research will produce a…
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