10.17192/meta.2015.5.3796 Gertel, Jörg Jörg Gertel Spatialities of Hunger: Post-National Spaces, Assemblages and Fragmenting Liabilities Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 5 (2015) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2015 Assemblages Insecurity Periphery Hunger Space Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2018-01-31 2015-11-03 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2015/103/3796 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2015-103-37965 https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.5.103 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2015/103/3796/3796.png 2196-629X application/pdf This contribution addresses the casual structure and spatialities of food insecurity. Drawing from scholarly debates on periphery, I illustrate the limited explanatory range of state-centered periphery-approaches in order to comprehend the recent constellations of conflict and hunger. I argue that increasingly dynamic and post-national spaces of food insecurity emerge. Due to complex power geometries, these spaces are driven by realigning and territorially-stretched arrangements of action (e.g. global producer-consumer relations), by technologically enhanced new temporal configurations (e.g. speculation and high frequency trade in food), by the performances of metrics (e.g. models of food price and value-constructions shaping food security), and by the reflexive effects of knowledge production. In order to comprehend these dynamics, concepts capable of capturing new assemblages are required. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 5 (2015)