The ‘Slow violence’ of famines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22020136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Swati Parashar (0000-0001-7162-6367, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-318 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2192-1741 • E-ISSN: 2524-6976 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s42597-026-00159-8 |
| OpenAlex | W7140306336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
How do we account for the injured, suffering, disappearing, lifeless, decaying, mourning, and exterminated bodies of mass starvation? Is political violence only about blood and war, visible injuries and quick deaths on a temporal scale? What about the displacement, disappearances and gradual deaths that occur in geographies of mass starvation, or famines produced through wars and other kinds of deliberate actions by the powerful? This paper engages with the dilemmas of studying famines as deliberate mass starvation or as acts of political violence perpetrated by actors who need to be held accountable. It draws from the concept of ‘slow violence’ (Nixon 2011) to argue that the gradual emaciation, death and decay of starving bodies and the invisibility of famine-related inter-generational suffering prevent sustained public attention to this serious crime against humanity and violation of human rights
Humanity · Invisibility · Mass migration · Politics · Starvation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Political Theology and Sovereignty
The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959–1961 famine in China
The Precarious State of Famine Research
Slow violence and toxic geographies
What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations
Memory and justice after famines
Hunger as a weapon of war
Violence and ordering of the Third World
Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State
Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India
Famine, Crime, and Gender in Nineteenth-century France
The Long Shadow of Band Aid Humanitarianism
Famine, violence, and the intentional politics of letting die
Democracy as a Cure for Famine
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |