Events at Reed

February 12, 2015

Lecture: Michelle Jurkovich, “The Global Politics of Hunger”

Thursday, 4:30 p.m., Psychology 105

Michelle Jurkovich is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies. A member of the fifth generation of her family from Fresno, California, the county with the highest rates of agricultural production in the United States but also high rates of malnutrition, she is especially interested in the politics of hunger and the right to food movement. Dr. Jurkovich’s current book manuscript asks: What explains how international anti-hunger organizations construct their campaigns and whom they decide to target in these campaigns? Relying on interviews and surveys of executive and senior level staff at top international anti-hunger organizations, she documents the diffusion of blame and causal frames among advocates around the hunger problem. Jurkovich examines why international anti-hunger campaigns look the way they do, provides a model (the “buckshot model”) to explain campaigns in this issue area, and examines what lessons we can draw for activism around economic and social rights more broadly from the hunger case. She is currently working on several projects, including the varied use of international law in international human rights activism, a comparison between anti-HIV/AIDS and anti-hunger activism, and a project on international hunger metrics, among others. Dr. Jurkovich has conducted archival work on the construction of hunger as a global problem at the UN FAO archives in Rome, the UK National Archives, and the U.S. National Archives. Sponsored by the Reed departments of sociology and political science.

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