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2 - Feeding Bodies

Food Relief and ‘The Most Deplorable Victims of the War’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2023

Tomás Irish
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Swansea University
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Tens of thousands of European ‘intellectuals’ faced starvation by 1920 and Vienna was the epicentre for international humanitarian aid. This chapter focuses on how the feeding of intellectuals was organized by a range of humanitarian organizations in this period. The most striking example of this was the phenomenon of the ‘intellectual kitchen’, a site where intellectuals were fed away from the wider populations of their towns and cities. The chapter explores the mechanics of food and clothes aid, and argues that issues of class, gender, and race shaped the status of the ‘intellectual’ for humanitarian organizations as well as aid workers.

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Feeding the Mind
Humanitarianism and the Reconstruction of European Intellectual Life, 1919–1933
, pp. 48 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Feeding Bodies
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.003
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  • Feeding Bodies
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.003
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  • Feeding Bodies
  • Tomás Irish, Swansea University
  • Book: Feeding the Mind
  • Online publication: 07 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128476.003
Available formats
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