Bibliography on Hunger (downloadable)


This is an evolving collection of books and articles that approach hunger from different perspectives.  As of now, it contains some interesting approaches from economic, cultural, geographical, anthropological, gender and other perspectives.  There are a few on hunger in developed countries, specially USA.

 

Agarwal, Bina, S. L. Rao, Jean Drèze, Patricia Uberoi, and National Council of Applied Economic Research. The Family in Public Policy : Fallacious Assumptions and Gender Implications. Golden Jubilee Seminar Series. Vol. 9th lecture. New Delhi: National Council of Applied Economic Research, 2000.

America’s Second Harvest. “Hunger in America 2001.” (2001).

Ann Nichols-Casebolt. “Making Ends Meet: Food Assistance and the Working Poor.” Institute for Research on Poverty no. Discussion paper No. 1222-01 (200).

Atkins, P. J., and Ian R. Bowler. Food in Society : Economy, Culture, Geography. USA: Hodder Arnold, 2001.

Ball, Nicole. World Hunger : A Guide to the Economic and Political Dimensions. Santa Barbara, Calif. Oxford, England: ABC-Clio ; Clio Press, 1981.

Berry, Jeffrey M. The Interest Group Society. Boston: Little Brown, 1984.

Blomley, Nicholas K., David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford. The Legal Geographies Reader : Law, Power, and Space. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Bohle, Hans-Georg. Worlds of Pain and Hunger : Geographical Perspectives on Disaster Vulnerability and Food Security. Saarbrèucken ; Fort Lauderdale: Breitenbach, 1993.

Castro, Josuâe de. The Geography of Hunger. Boston,: Little Brown, 1952.

Chavas, J. P. “The Microeconomics of Food Security.” The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 44, no. 1 (2000): 1-29.

Chetley, A. The Politics of Baby Foods: Successful Challenges to an International Marketing Strategy. New York: St. Martin Press, 1986.

Cooper, Davina. “Out of Place: Symbolic Domains, Religious Rights and the Cultural Contract.” in The Legal Geographies Reader : Law, Power, and Space., Edited by Nicholas K. Blomley, David Delaney and Richard T. Ford. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Currey, Bruce, and Graeme Hugo. Famine as a Geographical Phenomenon. Dordrecht ; Boston Hingham, MA: D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984.

Dando, William A. The Geography of Famine. Silver Spring, Md. New York: V. H. Winston ; Wiley, 1980.

Deaton, Angus, and Valerie Kozel. “The Great Indian Poverty Debate.” (.

Dréze, Jean. “Democratic Practice and Social Inequality in India.” ISS Occasional Paper Series ;; 29; (.

Dreze,Jean Affiliation Centre for Development Econ Delhi School of Econ. “Gender and Employment in India.” (.

Dreze, Jean, Gazdar,Haris Affiliation Delhi School of Econ, London School of Econ Collection Au: Dreze,Jean, and Amartya eds Sen. “Uttar Pradesh: The Burden of Inertia.” (.

Drèze, Jean, Anne-Catherine Guio, and Mamta Murthi. “Mortality, Fertility and Gender Bias : The Case of India.” Discussion Papers ;; no. 9603; Variation: Discussion Papers (Wallonia (Belgium). Service Des Études Et De La Statistique) ;; no 9603. (.

Dreze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. “Hunger and Public Action.” (.

———. “India Economic Development and Social Opportunity.” (.

Drèze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. “The Political Economy of Hunger.” WIDER Studies in Development Economics; Variation: Studies in Development Economics. Contents: Vol. 3. Endemic Hunger. 1991. (.

Dreze, Jean, Sen,Amartya Affiliation London School of Econ, Harvard U Collection Au: Ahmad,Ehtisham eds, and et al. “Public Action for Social Security: Foundations and Strategy.” (.

Dreze, Jean, and Amartya eds Sen. “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives.” (.

Eide, Asbjorn, and United Nations University. Food as a Human Right. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University, 1984.

Eisinger, Peter K. Toward an End to Hunger in America. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1998.

Ellickson, Robert C. “Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Panhandlers, Skid Rows and Public Space Zoning.” in The Legal Geographies Reader : Law, Power, and Space., Edited by Nicholas K. Blomley, David Delaney and Richard T. Ford. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Erevelles, Nirmala, and Steven J. Taylor. “Bodies that do Not Matter: Social Policy, Education, and the Politics of Difference.” Thesis PH D –Syracuse University 1998, 1998.

Gould, Peter, and Annik Rogier. “Famine as a Spatial Crisis.” in Famine as a Geographical Phenomenon., Edited by Bruce Currey, Graeme Hugo. Dordrecht ; Boston Hingham, MA: D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984.

Harriss-White, Barbara. Child Nutrition and Poverty in South India : Noon Meals in Tamil Nadu. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co., 1991.

Harriss-White, Barbara Affiliation U. Oxford. “Destitution and the Poverty of its Politics–with Special Reference to South Asia.” (.

Johnson, Dale, and Don Mitchell. “Syracuse Hunger Project – Executive Report.” Unpublished (2004).

Kent, George. Freedom from Want : The Human Right to Adequate Food. Advancing Human Rights Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005.

Kutzner, Patricia L. World Hunger : A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1991.

Learmonth, A. T. A. “Patterns of Disease and Hunger.” Problems in Modern Geography; (.

Looker, AC, Dallman, Carrol, and et al. “Prevalence of Iron Deficiency in the United States.” JAMA (1997): 277, 973-976.

McMillan, Della E., and Jeanne Harlow. Anthropology and Food Policy : Human Dimensions of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Milbrath, Lester W. The Washington Lobbyists. Chicago,: Rand McNally, 1963.

Mitchell, Don. “The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and the Implications of of Anti-Homelessness Laws in the United States.” in The Legal Geographies Reader : Law, Power, and Space., Edited by Nicholas K. Blomley, David Delaney and Richard T. Ford. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Moseley, W. G., and B. I. Logan. “Conceptualizing Hunger Dynamics: A Critical Examination of Two Famine Early Warning Methodologies in Zimbabwe.” Applied Geography 21, no. 3 (2001): 223-248, E-mail: moseley@geog.niu.edu.

Murton, Brian. “Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Famine in Southern India.” in Famine as a Geographical Phenomenon., Edited by Bruce Currey, Graeme Hugo. Dordrecht ; Boston Hingham, MA: D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984.

Myrdal, Gunnar, and Twentieth Century Fund. Asian Drama; an Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1968.

Nestle, Marion. Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. California Studies in Food and Culture ; 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Nord, Mark, Margaret Andrews, and Stevan Carlson. “Household Food Security in the United States, 2003.” Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 42, (2003).

Physician Task Force on Hunger in America.,. Hunger in America : The Growing Epidemic. 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. Scranton, Pa.: Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985.

Probe Team. “Public Report on Basic Education in India.” (.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Death without Weeping : The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Sen, Amartya Kumar. The Argumentative Indian : Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity. London ; New York: Allen Lane, 2005.

———. Development as Freedom. 1st. ed. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Srinivasan,T.N.Affiliation Yale U.Collection Au Srinivasan T.N. “Destitution: A Discourse.” (.

———. “Hunger: Defining it, Estimating its Global Incidence, and Alleviating it.” (.

Stanbrook, L. “The Politics of Advertising to Children.” in Children’s Food: Marketing and Innovation., Edited by G. Smith.

Turnbull, Colin M. The Mountain People. New York,: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Van Esterik, Penny. Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

Walter, Nathan Andrew, and Janet E. Kodras. “The American Space of Hunger Geographic, Political, and Economic Change and the Ability to Eat in the United States in the Late 1990s.” (.

Witt, Doris. Black Hunger : Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity. Race and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Young, Liz. “Gender and Hunger: Salvaging Essential Categories.” Area 31, no. 2 (1999): 99-109, E-mail: l.young@staffs.ac.uk.

 

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About Vivek Srinivasan

I work with the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University. Before this, I worked with the Right to Food Campaign and other rights based campaigns in India. To learn more, click here.

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