Crisis in 'a normal bad year

Spaces of humanitarian emergency, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and the Somali famine of 2011

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139937
AutoresAurora Fredriksen (0000-0003-4287-3443, University of Manchester, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume48
Fascículo1
Páginas40-57
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x15597446
OpenAlexW2284534554
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas52

This article takes the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and its use in the declaration of famine in Somalia in July 2011 as a site for examining how the spatial imaginary and emplaced, affective registers of emergency are implicated in marking situations as spaces of humanitarian emergency, or not. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale is described and its role in removing the affective registers of crisis discussed in relation to the normalisation of the conditions constituting a classification of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Phase 4, 'Humanitarian Emergency', in Somalia. This is contrasted to the urgent mobilisation of humanitarian action following the reclassification of Somalia's food insecurity situation to Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Phase 5, 'Famine'. It is argued that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification phase reclassification, by enacting a moment of rupture, led the normalised space of food insecurity to be seen as a space of humanitarian emergency, thereby triggering the rapid mobilisation of humanitarian action in response to crisis

Cartography · Computer security · Declaration · Development economics · Economics · Famine · Food security · Geography · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Political science · Refugee · Somali · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Law