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Bread and Borders: the Mediterranean's Food Crisis and Unrra's Response during and after the Second World War

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The paper takes as its starting point a small set of individual figures. Unrra officers whose trajectories, writings, and assignments offer a lens through which to examine how humanitarian priorities, especially around food, were enacted on the ground. These case studies are not meant to be representative, but illustrative: they allow us to trace how practices of provisioning, rationing, and logistical accountability emerged from the intersection of personal experience, organizational norms, and transnational circulation. Through this restricted biographical focus, the paper reflects more broadly on the international mobility of relief personnel and on the forms of knowledge and authority that structured the politics of food in the postwar Mediterranean.

Source: IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17161400

Author: PULVIRENTI, CHIARA MARIA

Institution: Sapienza University of Rome

Language: English

Topic: Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: G5042201810