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Title: | Hunger, healing, and citizenship in central Tanzania |
Author: | Phillips, Kristin D. |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 23-45 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | famine food aid Nyaturu politics |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v052/52.1.phillips.pdf |
Abstract: | This article draws on newspaper commentary, Nyaturu hunger lore, and ethnographic research to describe how villagers from the Singida region of central Tanzania 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. This article was the winner of the 2008 graduate student essay prize of the American African Studies Association. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |