Abstract
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
Highlights
Alex De Waal’s new book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, cannot be assessed as an enjoyable read; instead it is a book that will leave the reader unsettled, concerned and angry
“... we have come full circle, back to where we were before the invention of “Famine”, in which we understand famines as desperate societal crises, including hunger and other forms of distress, that threaten a way of life, created by the powerful, resisted and mediated by human skills and societal structures.” (De Waal 2018 p52)
The smaller famines related to wars from 1960s onwards is set out in act four, occurring largely in war torn countries of Sub Saharan Africa
Summary
Alex De Waal’s new book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, cannot be assessed as an enjoyable read; instead it is a book that will (and should) leave the reader unsettled, concerned and angry. His presentation of famines begins with “the year without a summer” He presents this period as the worst for famine deaths in modern history, where forced starvation was used a means of extermination or tolerated for military gains.
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