Leavened Apprehensions: Bread Subsidies and Moral Economies in Hashemite Jordan

Martínez, José Ciro

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“…The first point may refer to the variation prices of these food items in the Jordanian market. Carbohydrates, mainly rice and bread are among the highest consumption rates among the Jordanians, and they attributed by a very low price compared with the meat group [8,25,49,50]. In addition, the government co-pays the price of bread in Jordan, which make it available for most individuals [51].…”

Section: Food Group Intake During the Quarantine In Jordan Based On Fmentioning

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Effect of Covid-19 on food security: A cross-sectional survey

Elsahoryi

Al-Sayyed

Odeh

et al. 2020

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

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Background: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and subsequent quarantine could raise the risk of food inadequacy and nutrition deficiency crises. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on household food security in Jordan, determined the percentage of food security and the levels of food insecurity during the quarantine, determined the associated factor with food insecurity, and determined main food groups associated with FINS during the quarantine. Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a Web-based validated questionnaire. The Food Insecurity Experience Scale was used to measure the food insecurity during the first four weeks of the quarantine, and a modified food consumption score was used to determine the number of times the household consumes each food group. Univariate and multiple logistic regression models were used to describe, explore, and predict risk factors correlated with food insecurity among Jordanians, during the first four weeks of the quarantine. Results: A total of 3129 Jordanians had responded to the assessment and fully answered the questionnaire. 23.1% of the total participants were severe food insecure, while 36.1% were moderate food insecure, 40.7% were food secure. The regression model demonstrated the monthly income per capita below the poverty line and a number of the family member (1e4 and 5e7) associated significantly with moderate food insecurity (OR: 5.

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Section: Food Group Intake During the Quarantine In Jordan Based On Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Covid-19 on food security: A cross-sectional survey

Elsahoryi

Al-Sayyed

Odeh

et al. 2020

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

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“…Ever since, political elites have consistently ignored the pleas of international financial institutions, cementing the government’s commitment to providing citizens with discounted bread (Andoni and Schwedler, 1996; Martínez, 2017). In addition to the foodstuff’s symbolic importance (Canaan, 1962; Martínez, 2018a), subsidised pita bread continues to represent a crucial hedge against inflation and volatile food markets for residents of the Hashemite Kingdom. Whereas vegetable prices, especially tomatoes, fluctuate considerably, the price of bread remains uniform at JD0.16 ($0.23) a kilogram.…”

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Of bakeries and checkpoints: Stately affects in Amman and Baghdad

Martínez

Sirri

2020

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines bakeries and checkpoints through their relationship to the state and connects considerations of affect with the burgeoning literature on infrastructure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Amman and Baghdad, we centre routine encounters at these sites and argue that infrastructural engagements ignite energies, desires and sentiments that are deeply implicated in how the state plays out in everyday life. We zoom in on these ordinary affects and unpack the situated histories of rule in which they emerge. In Amman and Baghdad, stately affects work in and through infrastructure, doing so with regularity and intensity, and at specific times and places. The state effect transpires and thrives through these quotidian affective resonances, not just in the realm of ideas and imaginaries.

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“…Baladi bread is thus one medium through which the public assesses the legitimacy of the ruling regime. When people's expectations for their staple food are not met it can be a source of political unrest, as bread riots throughout history have demonstrated (Thompson ; Engel ; Martinez ). In 1977, the government's attempts to raise the price of bread resulted in two days of riots around the country, with protestors attacking shops, government buildings, and police stations.…”

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Care and Conveyance: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo

Barnes¹,

Taher²

2019

Cult. Anthropol.

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The streets are already busy, despite the early hour. Minibuses jostle for space alongside bicycles, cars, and motorbikes, the fumes of idling vehicles filling the air. Honking horns punctuate a background noise of Quranic recitations playing from radios, pop music broadcasting from a store, and a babble of animated conversation. Vendors are setting up their stands for the day, peeling layers of decay off cabbages and lettuce, stacking oranges one atop another. A small hut stands by the side of the road, its window open at the front. The booth is nondescript, unmarked by any sign, with no produce on display or smells emanating from it. Within the darkened space, a woman sits behind a counter. A customer approaches. "I'll have a pound's worth, please," he says, placing several coins on the counter and handing over a plastic card. 1 The woman puts the card into a small handheld machine and then reaches toward the shelves that line both sides of the booth. She starts pulling down loaves of round, flat bread, placing twenty on the bran-covered counter, and handing back the card. The customer picks up the bread, feeling the loaves and glancing briefly at each one in turn. He sets aside four loaves, which the woman exchanges for four new ones. He then moves to one side CARE AND CONVEYANCE: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 34:3 418and spreads out his bread on the hood of a car that is parked nearby. After a few minutes, he stacks the now-cooled bread into neat piles and places it in the plastic bag he has brought with him. He departs, the bulging bag of bread in one hand, smaller bags of beans, greens, and tomatoes in the other.This simple transaction in a Cairo neighborhood in the winter of 2015 might appear to hold little significance. Underlying the transaction, though, is a set of social, material, political, and economic relationships that reaches far beyond those of a man buying bread. The moment of card-money-bread exchange marks an interface between a government subsidy system, private business, staple food, and the millions of people who eat this food every day. The bread the customer is purchasing is a particular kind of bread, known as baladi bread, which is subsidized by the government and eaten by the majority of Egyptians (according to the government's statistics, around 85 percent) on a daily basis (see figure 1). 2 The card the customer hands over is a ration card, which entitles him to five loaves of baladi bread a day for each member of his family. The money he pays covers the cost of twenty loaves at the subsidized price of 5 piasters a loaf, a tenth of the price of other kinds of bread (less than half a U.S. cent per loaf). 3 The bakery he is buying from is private, but the content and size of the baladi bread it produces are regulated by the government. The way he is handling the bread, checking it for defects, Figure 1. Baladi bread with beans and mulokhiya (jute mallow). Photo by Mariam Taher. CARE AND CONVEYANCE

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Leavened Apprehensions: Bread Subsidies and Moral Economies in Hashemite Jordan

Cited by 16 publications

References 55 publications

Effect of Covid-19 on food security: A cross-sectional survey

Effect of Covid-19 on food security: A cross-sectional survey

Of bakeries and checkpoints: Stately affects in Amman and Baghdad

Care and Conveyance: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo

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