Capitalism and hunger in Northern Nigeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11904048
AutoresBob Shenton (autor de correspondencia), Mike Watts (0000-0002-8044-5418)
Año1979
Volumen6
Número15-16
Fecha de publicación1979-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056247908703396
OpenAlexW1986902785
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas4

The Hausa areas of the Sudanic belt of West Africa certainly experienced food shortages, due mainly to weather or pestilence, but had a variety of social mechanisms to reduce their impact on any one family. Many of these mechanisms were undermined in the various transitions that resulted from colonialism without other measures to replace them. From this experience the meaning of ‘crisis’ in peripheral capitalist societies is explored as some combination of the ‘economic’ crisis of overproduction of commodities in advanced capitalism with the crisis of underproduction of use values characteristic of pre‐capitalist society

Biology · Capitalism · Colonialism · Development economics · Ecological crisis · Economic shortage · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Meaning (existential · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Economic Theory and Policy · Ecology