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Citation

Essex J. Geopolitics 2014; 19(2): 266-290.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/14650045.2014.896795

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The impacts of recent food, financial, and energy crises have reinvigorated a geopolitical enframing of global food security that makes foreign development assistance a primary component of national security strategies. This centres elite fears of hunger and underdevelopment and strongly shapes policies and strategies adopted in response. Geopolitical fears of hungry and food insecure populations are compounded by the politics of austerity and cuts to foreign aid budgets and social spending. This paper examines the geopolitics of food security, fear, and austerity as expressed in the rhetoric and strategies of major aid donor governments, especially the US and UK, and proposes an alternative geopolitics that builds from the affective dimensions of hunger, food insecurity, and vulnerability as experienced by the hungry and poor. The example of farmer suicides and agrarian political mobilisation in India demonstrates how this affective alternative geopolitics may be constructed and examined. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.


Language: en

Keywords

United States; United Kingdom; geopolitics; international relations; political conflict; food security; international aid; national security

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