Food in Zones of Conflict

Paul Collinson is an Honorary Research Associate and former part-time lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He also works for the UK government. As well as the anthropology of food, his research interests include the anthropology of development and applied anthropology. His research is focused on the Republic of Ireland where he has been conducting anthropological fieldwork since the late 1990s. Helen Macbeth is President of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. Her main academic interest is in fostering cooperation between biological and social scientists. She has previously edited or co-edited seven volumes, four of which are in this series.

"One of the most prevalent themes of this innovative collection is the exploration of how food becomes highly politicized and used as a political and military weapon, with multiple chapters examining-and convincingly demonstrating-how governments and other powerful groups exploit the availability of and access to food... a valuable contribution to an often overlooked and underexplored topic, which also offers innovative and novel case studies and empirical data to the more well-trodden tropes of food security and poverty, nutrition and intervention. It is sure to find its way onto many reading lists and will provide a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate teaching and research." - Food, Culture & Society

• List of Figures List of Tables ForewordHugo Slim Preface List of Contributors Introduction Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth Chapter 1. 'Try to imagine, we didn't even have salt to cook with.': Food and War in Sierra Leone Susan Shepler Chapter 2. Landmines, Cluster Bombs and Food Insecurity in Africa Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi and Akinyinka Akinyoade Chapter 3. Special Nutritional Needs in Refugee Camps: A Cross-disciplinary Approach Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth Chapter 4. Patterns of Household Food Consumption in Conflict Affected Households in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Rebecca Kent Chapter 5. Engaging Religion in the Quest for Sustainable Food Security in Zones of Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa Lucy Kimaro Chapter 6. Livestock Production in Zones of Conflict in the Northern Border of Mexico Daria Deraga Chapter 7. The Logic of War and Wartime Meals Nives Rittig Beljak and Bruno Beljak Chapter 8. Nutrition, Food Rationing and Home Production in U.K. in the Second World War Helen Lightowler and Helen Macbeth Chapter 9. Beyond the Ration: Alternatives to the Ration for British Soldiers on the Western Front 1914-1918 Rachel Duffett Chapter 10. Sustaining and Comforting the Troops in the Pacific War Katarzyna J. Cwiertka Chapter 11. Enemy Cuisine: Claiming Agency, Seeking Humanity and Renegotiating Identity through Consumption K. Felicia Campbell Chapter 12. The Memory of Food Problems at the end of the First World War in Subsequent Propaganda Posters in Germany Tania RuscaChapter 13. Echoes of Catastrophe: Famine, Conflict and Reconciliation in the Irish Borderlands Paul Collinson Chapter 14. 'Land to the Tiller': Hunger and the End of Monarchy in Ethiopia Benjamin Talton Chapter 15. Prospects for Conflict to Spread through Bilateral Land Arrangements for Food Security Michael J. Strauss Chapter 16. Food, Conflict and Human Rights: Accounting for Structural Violence Ellen Messer Index