1st Edition
Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
1. Introduction
Patta Scott-Villiers and Naomi Hossain
2. A World In Protest
Sara Burke
3. Framing ‘food riots’: subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-12
Naomi Hossain, Devangana Kalita, Bonface Omondi, Lucio Posse, Vaibhav Raaj, Muhammad Ashikur Rahman, and Michael Sambo
4. Food riots in Bangladesh? Garments worker protests and globalized subsistence crises
Ferdous Jahan and Naomi Hossain
5. "We eat what we have, not what we want": The policy effects of food riots and eating after the 2008 crisis in Cameroon
Lauren Sneyd
6. Demanding accountability for hunger in India
Anuradha Joshi, Biraj Patnaik and Dipa Sinha
7. The Constitution Lies to Us! Food Protests in Kenya 2008-2013
Celestine Musembi and Patta Scott-Villiers
8. Authoritarian responsiveness and the greve in Mozambique
Luís de Brito, Egídio Chaimite and Alex Shankland
9. How ‘food riots’ work, and what they mean for development
Naomi Hossain and Patta Scott-Villiers
Biography
Naomi Hossain is a political sociologist at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her most recent book is The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh’s Unexpected Success (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Patta Scott-Villiers is a political sociologist and convenes the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She is lead author of Precarious Lives: Food Work and Care after the Global Food Crisis (Institute of Development Studies, 2016).
