Megan Vaughan

Bio: Megan Vaughan is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Famine & Colonialism. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 25 publications receiving 2560 citations.

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Abstract: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Rats' Tails and Trypanosomes. 3. The Great Dispensary in the Sky. 4. Without the Camp. 5. The Madman and the Medicine Men. 6. Syphilis and Sexuality. 7. Hippo Happenings. 8. 'Seeing is Believing'. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography.

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Abstract: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Rats' Tails and Trypanosomes. 3. The Great Dispensary in the Sky. 4. Without the Camp. 5. The Madman and the Medicine Men. 6. Syphilis and Sexuality. 7. Hippo Happenings. 8. 'Seeing is Believing'. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography.

Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990

Abstract: Introduction: In & Out of Context: The Problems of a R e-Study - The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History & Anthropology - The Colonial Construction of Knowledg e: Ecology & Agriculture - Relishing Porridge: The Gen der Politics of Food - Cultivators & Colonial Officers : Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing - Developing M en: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer - Migration &am p Marriage - Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s - F rom Millet to Maize: Gender and Household Labor in the 198 0s - Conclusion

Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition, and agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990.

Abstract: Introduction: In & Out of Context: The Problems of a R e-Study - The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History & Anthropology - The Colonial Construction of Knowledg e: Ecology & Agriculture - Relishing Porridge: The Gen der Politics of Food - Cultivators & Colonial Officers : Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing - Developing M en: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer - Migration &am p Marriage - Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s - F rom Millet to Maize: Gender and Household Labor in the 198 0s - Conclusion

The Politics of Life Itself

Abstract: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways. The object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself. The contemporary state does not 'nationalize' the corporeality of its subjects into a body politic on which it works en masse, in relation to the body politics of other states competing in similar terms. Biopolitics addresses human existence at the molecular level: it is waged about molecules, amongst molecules, and where the molecules themselves are at stake. Human beings in contemporary Western culture are increasingly coming to understand themselves in somatic terms – corporeality has become of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques. Biopolitics was inextricably bound up with the rise of the life sciences, the human sciences, clinical medicine. It has given birth to techniques, technologies, experts and apparatuses for the care and administration of the life of each and all, from town planning to health services.

''Bargaining'' and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household

Abstract: Highlighting the problems posed by a ''unitary'' conceptualization of the household, a number of economists have in recent years proposed alternative models. These models, especially those embodying the bargaining approach, provide a useful framework for analyzing gender relations and throwing some light on how gender asymmetries are constructed and contested. At the same time, the models have paid inadequate or no attention to some critical aspects of intra-household gender dynamics, such as: What factors (especially qualitative ones) affect bargaining power? What is the role of social norms and social perceptions in the bargaining process and how might these factors themselves be bargained over? Are women less motivated than men by self-interest and might this affect bargaining outcomes? Most discussions on bargaining also say little about gender relations beyond the household, and about the links between extra-household and intra-household bargaining power. This paper spells out the nature of these com...

Gender and cooperative conflicts

Abstract: WIDER Annankatu 42 00100 HELSINKI FINLAND 1. Introduction (p.l) 2. Capabilities, well-being, agency and perceptions (p.6) 3. Social Technology, cooperation and conflicts (p.10) 4. Households economics, bargaining models and information bases (p.15) 5. Cooperative conflicts: Interests, contributions and perceptions (p.20) 6. Extended entitlements and perceived legitimacy (p.30) 7. Production, earnings and perceived contributions (p.37) 8. Well-being, agency and cooperative conflicts (p.42) 2 GENDER AND COOPERATIVE CONFLICTS*

Hunger and Public Action

Abstract: This study was well-received and widely discussed when it appeared in hardback in 1990. It is devoted to analysis of the enduring problem of hunger in the modern world, and of the role that public action can play in countering it. The book is divided into four parts. The first attempts to provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social and political issues involved in the causation of hunger and deprivation. The second deals with famine prevention, paying special attention to Africa and India. The third focuses on chronic undernourishment and related deprivations. Parts two and three include a number of case studies of successful public action for the prevention of hunger and famines in various parts of the world. The fourth part of the book draws together the main themes and concerns of the earlier chapters, and provides an integrated view of the role of public action in eliminating hunger.

The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine:

Abstract: Mass poverty results from long-term changes in social production and distribution mechanisms; famines result from violent short-term changes in the same mechanisms. Growth of mass poverty increases vulnerability to famine through raising the proportion of the population surviving on the margin ... Famines increases mass poverty by permanently altering the distribution of assets in favor of the [rich] (Ghose, A.K., 1989: 127).