Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2728995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin D Phillips (0000-0002-5117-5551, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-45 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/arw.0.0135 |
| OpenAlex | W2039397509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article draws on newspaper commentary, Nyaturu hunger lore, and ethnographic research to describe how central Tanzanian villagers accessed food aid from the state during the East African food crisis of 2006. Through leveraging their political support and their participation in national development agendas, rural inhabitants claimed their rights. Yet it was through these exchanges that the state converted food aid into political power. The article argues that the highly ritualized gift of food aid naturalizes a contemporary political and economic order in which, counterintuitively, it is rural farmers who go hungry
Agriculture · Citizenship · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Food policy · Food security · Geography · Newspaper · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Tanzania · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |