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SUMMARY:Maize and the politics of provisioning in South Africa
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DESCRIPTION:In rural South Africa\, rising maize prices have contributed t
 o growing hunger and political tensions. In Jozini\, where maize is a stap
 le food\, the phrase isisu asikweletwa ('the stomach cannot be owed') capt
 ures the embodied experience of crisis and the limits of debt-mediated sur
 vival in a financialised food system. Drawing on long-term ethnographic wo
 rk and recent interviews in the wake of price hikes\, the paper explores h
 ow maize has become a focus of contestation over access to food. It argues
  that conceptualising food provisioning as a political field shaped by con
 flicts\, obligations and claims\, helps rethink the boundaries between eve
 ry day politics and form politics in a context of weakening democracy.
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LOCATION:Oxford Martin School - Seminar room 1 (ground floor)\, Seminar ro
 om 1 (ground floor) Oxford Martin School 35 Broad Street Oxford Oxfordshir
 e OX1 3BD United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dr Elizabeth Hull (SOAS\, University of London)
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