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Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut‐Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti
Author(s) -
Jenkins Laura Dudley
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.12661
Subject(s) - food sovereignty , embodied cognition , capitalism , sovereignty , agriculture , neoliberalism (international relations) , peanut butter , food systems , economics , economic growth , sociology , development economics , agricultural economics , political science , political economy , food security , food science , geography , law , biology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
How did Haiti, where peanuts were once a staple crop often grown, traded, processed and shared by women, reach its contemporary food crisis, when some mothers must feed their children a diet of donated peanut‐based nutritional supplements to keep them alive? Case studies of peanuts as food aid in Haiti reveal the ways neoliberalism and disaster capitalism stymie women's embodied sovereignty. This article uses the concept of embodied sovereignty to build on food sovereignty literature, enabling a sharper focus on the bodies that produce, process, feed and eat food, as well as the historical production of gendered food responsibilities, and the life‐and‐death stakes of sovereign power.