The space of vulnerability : the causal structure of hunger and famine
Crisis ; Famine;Starvation ; Food security ; Malnutrition ; Marginality ; Poverty ; Social relations ; Social space ; Society
The AA. wish to explore, in theoretical terms, the interrelations between poverty, hunger and famine. They argue that their locally and historically specific configuration defines what is called a space of vulnerability. They also provide
the theoretical means by which this space can be mapped with respect to its social, political, economic and structural-historical coordinates.