scholarly journals Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots

2015 ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Andreas Gros ◽  
Alexander S. Gard-Murray ◽  
Yaneer Bar-Yam
Keyword(s):  
Food Riots

scholarly journals Privatizing the Commons: Protest and the Moral Economy of National Resources in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (S29) ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Matthew Lacouture
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Food Riots ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Phosphate Mines

AbstractThis article interrogates the social impact of one aspect of structural adjustment in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: privatization. In the mid-2000s, King Abdullah II privatized Jordan's minerals industry as part of the regime's accelerated neoliberal project. While many of these privatizations elicited responses ranging from general approval to ambivalence, the opaque and seemingly corrupt sale of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) in 2006 was understood differently, as an illegitimate appropriation of Jordan's national resources and, by extension, an abrogation of the state's (re-) distributive obligations. Based on interviews with activists, I argue that a diverse cross-section of social movement constituencies – spanning labour and non-labour movements (and factions within and across those movements) – perceived such illegitimate privatizations as a moral violation, which, in turn, informed transgressive activist practices and discourses targeting the neoliberal state. This moral violation shaped the rise and interaction of labour and non-labour social movements in Jordan's “Arab uprisings”, peaking in 2011–2013. While Jordan's uprisings were largely demobilized after 2013, protests in 2018 and 2019 demonstrate the continued relevance of this discourse. In this way, the 2011–2013 wave of protests – and their current reverberations – differ qualitatively from Jordan's earlier wave of “food riots” in 1989 (and throughout the 1990s), which I characterize as primarily restorative in nature.

Food Riots, Historical Perspectives

2014 ◽  
pp. 923-931
Author(s):  
Amy Bentley ◽  
Christy Spackman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Food Riots

How ‘food riots’ work, and why they matter for development

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Naomi Hossain ◽  
Patta Scott-Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Food Riots

Food riots in Bangladesh?

2017 ◽  
pp. 76-97
Author(s):  
Ferdous Jahan ◽  
Naomi Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Food Riots

Food Riots in Nineteenth-Century Sweden

2014 ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Food Riots

Food Riots, Historical Perspectives

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amy Bentley ◽  
Christy Spackman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Food Riots
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