Title: Food in zones of conflict : cross-disciplinary perspectives /
Authors: Collinson, Paul, 1969-; Macbeth, Helen M.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Warfare; Food Social aspects; Food Political aspects.; War and society; Food security; Food supply Political aspects.; Hunger Political aspects.; Food Supply; Hunger; Social Conditions.; Starvation; Warfare
Abstract: "The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflictnearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel operating in conflictzones is another important issue. These themes unite this collection, the chapters of which span different geographic areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number of different disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition, political science, development studies and international relations, as well as practitioners working in the private and public sectors, who are currently concerned with food-related issues in the field."--Page [4] of cover.
Contents: 'Try to imagine, we didn't even have salt to cook with!' : food and war in Sierra Leone / Susan Shepler -- Landmines, cluster bombs and food insecurity in Africa / Bukola Akeyemi Oyeniyi and Akinyinka Akinyoade -- Special nutritional needs in refugee camps : a cross-disciplinary approach / Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth -- Patterns of household food consumption in conflict affected households in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka / Rebecca Kent -- Engaging religion in the quest for sustainable food security in zones of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa / Lucy Kimaro -- Livestock production in zones of conflict in the northern border of Mexico / Daria Deraga -- The logic of war and wartime meals / Nives Rittig Beljak and Bruno Beljak -- Nutrition, food rationing and home production in the UK during the Second World War / Helen Lightowler and Helen Macbeth -- Beyond the ration : alternatives to the ration for British soldiers on the western front, 1914-1918 / Rachel Duffett -- Sustaining and comforting the troops in the Pacific War / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka -- Enemy cuisine : claiming agency, seeking humanity and renegotiating identity through consumption / K. Felicia Campbell -- The memory of food problems at the end of the First World War in subsequent propaganda posters in Germany / Tania Rusca -- Echoes of catastrophe : famine, conflict and reconciliation in the Irish borderlands / Paul Collinson -- 'Land to the tiller' : hunger and the end of monarchy in Ethiopia / Benjamin Talton -- Prospects for conflict to spread through bilateral land arrangements for food security / Michael J. Strauss -- Food, conflict and human rights : accounting for structural violence / Ellen Messer.