Law and Famine: Learning from the Hunger Courts in South Sudan
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چکیده
Activists and scholars are seeking to end famine by promoting international legal accountability for starvation. This article deepens our understanding of the relationship between politics law observing ongoing prevalence power norms institutions during times famine. It reveals widespread use hunger courts in famine-prone South Sudan their role legally enforcing social networks that provide most vulnerable. Based on analysis country-wide survey data from 2018 2019, qualitative interviews 2019‒22 in-depth ethnographic observations one chiefdom a period famine-level argues have played key networks. These also supported continuity chiefs’ authority despite crisis. The concludes addressing two issues: whether is necessarily emancipatory famine, shifted responsibility away political economies conflicts cause instead placing blame shame families
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Development and Change
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1467-7660', '0012-155X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12770