Entitlements or empowerment? famine and starvation in Africa
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11904783 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael Watts (0000-0002-8571-0030) |
| Año | 1991 |
| Volumen | 18 |
| Número | 51 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1991-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056249108703903 |
| OpenAlex | W1978948871 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 45 |
| Referencias citadas | 25 |
Famine and the crisis of African development have become inseparably linked in popular writing. Visual images of starvation are the icons of African failure, yet they have a dispelling quality accusing everyone and no one. This article reviews recent research on the genesis, dynamics and consequences of famine in Africa. While the entitlement approach to starvation associated with Amartya Sen has proven most helpful it must be situated on the larger political economic canvas by which entitlements and endowments are distributed and fought over – class relations. Food crises must be rooted in what Sen calls the ‘totality of rights’ not entitlements in a narrow legal sense. This provides an important link between famine, food security and democratization in Africa
Biology · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Empowerment · Entitlement (fair division · Famine · Food security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Starvation · Vulnerability (computing · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Ecology
The Reworking of Conservation Geographies
Seeking the Right to Food
Framing Famine
To share or not to share? (non-)violence, scarcity and resource access in Somali Region, Ethiopia
Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa
Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Rethinking the Greed-Grievance Nexus
Immediate in time and spectacular in space’
Whose Logic? The Local Redistribution of Food Aid Targeting Old and Chronically Sick People in Zambia
Sen's Entitlement Approach
Disaster vulnerability
Cause and response
Reinventing the Family
Empowering through entitlement? The micro-politics of food access in rural Maharashtra, India
The new variant famine hypothesis
Community institutions, social marginalization and the adaptive capacity
Seasonal labour migration strategies in the Sahel
Climate change and social vulnerability
Endowments, Entitlements and Capabilities – What Urban Social Movements Offer to Poverty Reduction
From ‘Hume's Law’ to Problem- and Policy-Analysis for Human Development. Sen after Dewey, Myrdal, Streeten, Stretton and Haq
Social production of vulnerability to climate change in the rural middle hills of Nepal
Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability
Customary tenure systems under siege
Impact of environmental change on women in a peripheral coastal area, Nigeria
Heterogeneity and Collective Management
Environmental Entitlements
Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes in Coastal Vietnam
Quiet resistance speaks
The politics of food and starvation
Famine Crimes in International Law
A Climate of Confessionalization
That Coming Storm”
Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto for Survival
Policy Substitutability in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
To live and let die
The Paradoxes of Environmental Policy and Resource Management in Reform-Era China
The Ethiopian famine' revisited
For Whom is the Rural Economy Resilient? Initial Effects of Drought in Western Sudan
"How Little Progress"? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition
War, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka
Operationality in turbulence
Entitlements Analysis
Clear waters and muddied histories
Violent silence
Introduction
The African Poor
The meaning of ‘meaning’
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Hunger and Public Action
The Story of an African Famine
Famine and household coping strategies
The social relations of grain marketing in Northern Nigeria
Why are Rural People Vulnerable to Famine
Food Shortages and Seasonality in WoDaaBe Communities in Niger
Silent Violence
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Hunger and Public Action
Development
Hunger in Sudan
Economic development, drought, and famines
Famine Mortality
World military and social expenditures
Silent Violence
Markets and Famines in the Third World
Morality and harm
Dudal
Cattle and inequality
The Organization of a West African Grain Market
| Obras citantes distintas | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,36 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 44 |