Tom Scott-Smith On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief 9781501748653

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Автор: Tom Scott-Smith
Название: On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief
ISBN: 9781501748653
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Антропология

Гражданские права и гражданство

ISBN-10: 1501748653
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.03 кг.
Дата издания: 15.04.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 13 halftones, black and white
Размер: 161 x 236 x 31
Ключевые слова: Anthropology,Civil rights & citizenship,Human rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Подзаголовок: Two hundred years of hunger relief
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Поставляется из: Англии
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On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian scientific soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but rather is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions. Aid is often presented as an apolitical and technical project, but the way humanitarians conceive and tackle human needs has always been deeply influenced by culture, politics, and society. Txhese influences extend down to the most detailed mechanisms for measuring malnutrition and providing sustenance.

As Scott-Smith shows, over the past century, the humanitarian approach to hunger has redefined food as nutrients and hunger as a medical condition. Aid has become more individualized, medicalized, and rationalized, shaped by modernism in bureaucracy, commerce, and food technology. On an Empty Stomach focuses on the gains and losses that result, examining the complex compromises that arise between efficiency of distribution and quality of care. Scott-Smith concludes that humanitarian groups have developed an approach to the empty stomach that is dependent on compact, commercially produced devices and is often paternalistic and culturally insensitive.

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Introduction: Humanitarian Approaches to Hunger
1. From the Classical Soup Kitchen to the Irish Famine
2. Justus Liebig and the Rise of Nutritional Science
3. Governing the Diet in Victorian Institutions
4. Colonialism and Communal

On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief, Tom Scott-Smith