The politics of hunger : protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 / Carl J. Griffin.

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Griffin, Carl J. (Carl James) [Author]

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9781526145635
9781526145611

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HV4086 .P655 2020
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics -- Part I Protesting hunger -- Food riots and the languages of hunger -- The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor -- Part II Hunger policies -- Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism -- Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects -- Part III Theorising hunger -- The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor -- Telling the hunger of 'distant' others -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Subject: Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics -- Part I Protesting hunger -- Food riots and the languages of hunger -- The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor -- Part II Hunger policies -- Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism -- Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects -- Part III Theorising hunger -- The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor -- Telling the hunger of 'distant' others -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.

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