Carl J. Griffin

The politics of hunger (eBook, ePUB)

Protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an 'unremitted pressure'. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526145611
• Artikelnr.: 58679771

Autorenporträt

Carl J. Griffin is Professor in Historical Geography at the University of Sussex

Inhaltsangabe

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