| ID | 133110 |
| Title Proper | From the global food crisis to the age of austerity |
| Other Title Information | the anxious geopolitics of global food security |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Essex, Jamey |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The impacts of recent food, financial, and energy crises have reinvigorated a geopolitical enframing of global food security that makes foreign development assistance a primary component of national security strategies. This centres elite fears of hunger and underdevelopment and strongly shapes policies and strategies adopted in response. Geopolitical fears of hungry and food insecure populations are compounded by the politics of austerity and cuts to foreign aid budgets and social spending. This paper examines the geopolitics of food security, fear, and austerity as expressed in the rhetoric and strategies of major aid donor governments, especially the US and UK, and proposes an alternative geopolitics that builds from the affective dimensions of hunger, food insecurity, and vulnerability as experienced by the hungry and poor. The example of farmer suicides and agrarian political mobilisation in India demonstrates how this affective alternative geopolitics may be constructed and examined. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.266-290 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.266-290 |
| Key Words | National Security Strategies - NSS ; United States - US ; United Kingdom - UK ; Economic Austerity ; Economic Crisis ; Energy Crisis ; Financial Crisis ; Foreign Development Assistance - FDA ; Political Mobilization ; Geopolitical Strategy ; Political Disorder ; Economic Disorder ; Food Security ; Food Insecurity |