IAFF 6101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.3: Brinell Scale, Peasant Foods
12 May 2016
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Chap 4: the dispersion of power: tales of food and hunger. Fnpp = food and nutrition policy and planning. Language of hunger and the hunger of language: Symbol of hunger has evolved, and it has served a powerful social and political function. The very image of hunger (e. g. starving african child) is a symbol of first world"s power over the. Third -> violence of representation : should be human, but instead becomes an object, a number to keep track of. This chapter scrutinizes practices of international lending agencies and third world governments, how bureaucrats, experts, and beneficiaries of the third world are brought together. Fnpp created by wb in early 1970s from the realization that malnutrition and hunger must be dealt with through a comprehensive, multi-sectoral strategy: pt. 1 develop tools of analysis to unveil and understand power relations in fnpp practices through institutional ethnography: pt. 2 reconstruct the birth, life, and death of fnpp: pt.
