Nott, J.;
(2025)
Between Feast and Famine: Food, health, and the history of Ghana’s long twentieth century.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uniform, repercussions for the determinants of good and bad nutrition. All across this new and uneven polity, food production, domestic reproduction, gender relations, and food cultures underwent radical and rapid change. This volatile national history was matched only by the scientific instability of nutritional medicine during these same years. Moving between the dry Northern savannah, the mineral-rich and food-secure Southern rainforest, and the youthful, ever-expanding cities, Between Feast and Famine is a comparative history of nutrition in Ghana since the end of the nineteenth century. At the heart of this story is an analysis of how an uneven capitalist transformation variously affected the lives of women and children. It traces the change from sporadic periods of hunger in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through epidemics of childhood malnutrition during the twentieth century, and into emergent epidemics of diet-related non-communicable disease in the twenty-first century. Employing a novel, critical approach to historical epidemiology, John Nott argues that detailing the co-production of science and its subjects in the past is essential for understanding and improving health in the present.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between Feast and Famine: Food, health, and the history of Ghana’s long twentieth century |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087927 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087927 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087927 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material are given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Nott, J. 2025. Between Feast and Famine: Food, health, and the history of Ghana’s long twentieth century. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087927 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Ghana, Africa, health, history, malnutrition, famine, gender, imperialism, capitalism |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205228 |
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