
Famine in Somalia
Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-19-049938-9 (ISBN)
Description
A hard-hitting analysis of an African famine: why it happened, why it need not have happened and how the securitization of the victims hindered attempts to bring aid relief
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-049938-9 (9780190499389)
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Persons
Daniel Maxwell is a Professor of Nutrition and Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University, Boston. Nisar Majid is a researcher and consultant specialising in food security transnational studies with reference to Somali populations.