Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Janet E. Kodras, Florida State University, College of Social Science, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 16, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 349 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2007. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Bethany L. Letiecq. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77).

This dissertation explores how early modern playwrights articulated complaint and critique through a dramaturgy of hunger. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England faced poor harvests, changes in land use, and ineffectual government action leading to repeated subsistence crises both actual and perceived. Employing the anthropological concept of “foodways,” which recognizes food’s entanglement in multiple imaginative and material systems of meaning, the dissertation offers a corrective to contemporary literary and cultural scholarship in accounting for the sociopolitical implications of consumption in the context of these crises. Playwrights addressed the inequities of feasting and hunger in England from a range of competing ideological perspectives, engaging with the cultural dilemmas posed by scarcity through the interplay of plenty and want onstage. Chapter One explores the poor harvest of 1586 and the drama produced in its wake, in which hungry tyrants call attention to imaginative tensions within religious framings of hunger as a punishment. Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI simultaneously presents the rebel Cade as an ambitious glutton and draws attention to the consuming violence of the encloser Alexander Iden. Chapter Two focuses on two historical duologies influenced by the scarcity of the 1590s that re-evaluated governmental discourses condemning specific economic agents for exacerbating dearth. Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays suggest the corruption of Justices Shallow and Silence in tandem with Falstaff, while Thomas Heywood’s Edward IV plays highlight the king’s failures of traditional hospitality. Chapter Three first analyzes how Shakespeare drew on images of James-as-father and Elizabeth-as-nurturing-mother to address the 1607 Midlands Revolt in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens, then explores Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Bloody Banquet, which links the Queen’s starved infants with the appetites of the father-Tyrant’s court and implicitly interrogates the material value of patriarchal political theory. Chapter Four argues that representations of hungry soldiers in early Caroline drama echo Continental military humiliations to indict the royal favorite Buckingham. In The Unnatural Combat, Philip Massinger subverts this paradigm to blame the captain Belgarde’s hunger on the governor’s neglect, condemning Charles I for subsistence failures and suggesting the threat posed by an unchecked royal will. / 2019-03-04T00:00:00Z

In this work I illustrate the ways in which power structures function in operationalizing geographies of resistance in two particular carceral spaces. Specifically I examine the social organization and internal power relations present within hunger striking prison populations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California. I show that the Guantanamo hunger strikes are minimally organized with non-binding power structures, while the Pelican Bay hunger strikes have had greater levels of commitment, and have been more sophisticated in organization. I consider the relationships that exist between power, identity and violence within these hunger strike resistance movements. I contextualize these phenomena within a biopolitical framework that transgresses more traditional definitions of biopolitics; as opposed to conceptualizing biopolitics as a technology of power manifested by the state, I argue that oppressed populations, such as prisoners, construct their own power by regulating their own ‘vital biological processes’.

Hunger and malnutrition remain amongst the most devastating problems facing the world's poor and needy. About 80-90 million people have to be fed yearly and most of them are in developing countries in Africa. The majority of South African families live in poverty with a limited variety of foods available in their homes. Integrated aquaculture-poultry production systems can accommodate the demand for food. Integrated fish farming systems has been shown to can provide the vital animal protein necessary to relieve much of the prevailing problems of malnutrition in rural areas. Commercially orientated integrated aquaculture has been investigated in South Africa over the last two decades and intensive studies were done, yet little is known about the concept of aquaculture-agriculture systems in South African rural populations. Integrated fish-chicken farming has the potential to impact positively on the livelihood of rural populations because it can provide food, employment opportunities and recirculation of waste products for maximum utilization. The production from two farming enterprises integrated together, will therefore contribute much to poverty alleviation and provision of employment or income. The South African rural communities are more commonly involved in layer production with indigenous breeds which produce few eggs compared to commercial breeds. There is however a need to identify a suitable layer breed that can best perform when used in an integrated fish farming system. Since the purpose of promoting this system is to provide food security and regular sources of income to the poor, the best performing layer breed will be able to produce enough eggs for consumption and selling while the fish will be sold to increase profit. The spent hens will also provide meat and an income to the farmer at the end of the production cycle. Three hundred and twenty layer chickens of eight breeds were randomly assigned to either a conventional (control) layer house or a treatment house that was an open-sided layer house constructed over a dam (160 chickens/treatment). The eight layer breeds used were two lines of indigenous breeds (i.e. Potchefstroom Koekoek and Ovambo), dual purpose breeds (i.e. New Hampshire and Black Australorp) and commercial breeds (i.e. Hyline-Silver and Hyline-Brown; Lohmann-Silver and Lohmann-Brown). The design used for the study was a randomized block design. The houses were blocked in five blocks with one replicate per treatment (breed) in each of the blocks. Each replicate comprised of four hens, individually caged in adjacent cages. Parameters measured over the five month trial period were egg production, egg weight, feed intake, feed conversion ratio and hen day production %. Egg quality parameters were also measured i.e. egg shell strength, specific gravity, albumen height, Haugh unit and meat and blood spots. The mortality and economic efficiency of all the layer breeds was calculated over the five months trial period. The commercial breeds produced significantly more eggs, heavier eggs, had better FCR and higher hen day production % than the dual purpose and indigenous breeds in both the house that was constructed over a dam and a conventional house system. However, the feed intake of laying hens did not differ significantly in both the housing systems. The housing systems did not significantly affect egg quality parameters of laying hens. Mortality per breed was higher in the conventional house than the dam house. The commercial breeds showed to be economically viable in an integrated chicken-fish farming system with a high profitability than the dual purpose and indigenous breeds. / Dissertation (MSc(Agric))--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Animal and Wildlife Sciences / unrestricted

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