Barnes Staple Security

Bread and Wheat in Egypt
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2311-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Jessica Barnes explores the central role that bread and wheat play in Egyptian daily life as well as the anxieties surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out these staples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Transliteration and Units vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Staple Becomings 39
2. Gold of the Land 81
3. Grain on the Move 113
4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher) 153
5. Homemade Bread 191
Conclusion 225
Notes 239
References 271
Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change.