Famine and food security
New trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3897758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Jaspar (0000-0001-6912-1327, Food Studies Centre SOAS University of London United Kingdom, corresponding author), Luka Biong Deng Kuol (The Sudd Institute and University of Juba, South Sudan, and Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University United States) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | e12669-e12669 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12669 |
| PMID | 39545474 |
| OpenAlex | W4404417155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Over the past decade, famine and food insecurity have increased, yet there have been few articles with a critical analysis of their social and political dynamics. This special issue of Disasters aims to revive such analysis and to provide new insights. The special issue contains eight articles, with topics ranging from the role of global politics and neoliberal strategies, to sanctions, war, settler-colonialism, elite capture and inequalities, actions of resistance and resilience, and the challenges of famine prevention in today's global political context. The papers provide both global and local analysis, with the latter covering Kashmir, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria
Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Famine · Food security · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science · Sanctions · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Energy and Environment Impacts · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Law
Analysing Famine
The Precarious State of Famine Research
Food Aid in Sudan
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Food as an Instrument of War in Contemporary African Famines
Protracted crisis, food security and the fantasy of resilience in Sudan
Governing through Failure and Denial
Mass starvation
From Emergency to Social Security in Sudan – Part II
Resilience as Enhancement
Risky Returns
Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies
Sudan's catastrophe
Famine Early Warning Systems and the Use of Socio-Economic Data
III A Disaster for Whom
Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy
Hunger in global war economies
Five levels of famine prevention
Music and the politics of famine
From Emergency to Social Security in Sudan - Part I
Conflict, the Continuum and Chronic Emergencies
Breaking from the past? Environmental narratives, logics of power, and the (re)production of food insecurity in South Sudan
Food systems in protracted crises
Famine Intensity and Magnitude Scales
A food regime genealogy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |