Food Riots: Poverty, Power and Protest

摘要

This paper explores the phenomenon of food riots. It argues that the riots may have been triggered by spikes in food prices in 2007-8, but there were many other factors that underpinned them. Demonstrators challenged injustice, inequality and political repression. Food riots were part of an important groundswell of mobilization that brought together a wide range of political coalitions for change and the promotion of human dignity.