Audio Podcast on State Food Crimes
Readers
of this blog over the last four years might have noticed that I have posted
several entries on North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Israel and West
Bank/Gaza. That is because I have been
writing a book entitled State Food
Crimes, which is scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press on
August 15, 2016.
Recently my colleague Todd Landman of the
University of Nottingham interviewed me about this book for a 22-minute audio
podcast. The podcast is called “Digesting Food Crimes: is there an appetite for
Prosecution?” and is published by The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human
Rights. Here is the link:
And
here is a brief summary of the book.
Governments
sometimes introduce policies that cause malnutrition or starvation among their
citizens or others for whom they are responsible. After an introduction on the
right to food, Part I discusses historical cases; communist famines (Ukraine 1932-33;
China 1958-62; Cambodia 1975-79); and neglect of starvation by democratic
states (Ireland 1840s; Germany post-WWI; Canadian Aboriginals 1870s). Part II
discusses contemporary starvation (North Korea) and malnutrition (Zimbabwe,
Venezuela, and the West Bank and Gaza). Part III uses the cases in Part II to
analyse international law (the law of genocide, crimes against humanity,
refugee law, and penal starvation); sanctions and food aid, and civil and
political rights as they pertain to the right to food. It also includes a
chapter on the right to food in advanced capitalist democracies, focusing on
Canadian Aboriginals, and concludes with a brief consideration of the need for
a new international treaty on the right to food.
If
anyone would like to know what I have been working on for the last six years
without actually reading the book, this podcast will tell you. Or you might actually decide to read the book
as well!
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