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Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds were injured. Among the looting crowds, activists from the Peronist party (the main political party in the country) were quite prominent. During the lootings, police officers were conspicuously absent - particularly when small stores were sacked. Through a combination of archival research, statistical analysis, multi-sited fieldwork, and taking heed of the perspective of contentious politics, this book provides an analytic description of the origins, course, meanings, and outcomes of the December 2001 wave of lootings in Argentina.

Food riots --- Pillage --- Violence --- Political violence --- Peronism. --- Law enforcement --- Emeutes de la faim --- Violence politique --- Péronisme --- Lois --- Application --- Partido Peronista (Argentina) --- Enforcement of law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justicialism --- Fascism --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Looting --- Plundering --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Bread riots --- Riots --- Peronist Party (Argentina) --- PP --- Policing --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes. The half decade of 2007-2012 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including protests and riots. Detailed case studies are included here from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The case studies illustrate that political cultures and ways of organizing around food share much across geography and history, indicating common characteristics of the popular politics of provisions under capitalism. However, all politics are ultimately local, and it is demonstrated how the historic fallout of a subsistence crisis depends ultimately on how the actors and institutions articulate, negotiate and reassert their specific claims within the peculiarities of each policy. A key conclusion of the book is that the politics of provisions remain essential to the right to food and that they involve unruliness. In other words, food riots work. The book explains how and why they continue to do so even in the globalized food system of the 21st century. Food riots signal a state unable to meet a principal condition of its social contract, and create powerful pressure to address that most fundamental of failings.

Food riots --- Right to food. --- Food supply --- History --- Government policy. --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Food, Right to --- Human rights --- Bread riots --- Riots --- Alex Shankland --- Anuradha Joshi --- Biraj Patnaik --- Bonface Omondi --- Celestine Nyamu Musembi --- crisis --- Devangana Kalita --- Dipa Sinha --- Egídio Chaimite --- economy --- Ferdous Jahan --- global --- Lauren Sneyd --- Lucio Posse --- Luís de Brito --- Michael Sambo --- Muhammad Ashikur Rahman --- moral --- Patta Scott-Villiers --- regime --- Sara Burke --- security --- Vaibhav Raaj