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7 - Community Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2020

Ingrid de Zwarte
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
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Chapter 7 provides a detailed account of social self-organisation at the local level, the constitution of the main NGO during the famine, local child-feeding initiatives, as well as women’s food protests. This chapter demonstrates that the final months of war presented a period of declining legitimacy of state authority in the food system, which led to the rise of new types of organisations: local self-organised relief and self-help entities. Emerging from existing networks, these civil society organisations occupied a central position between the household and state levels and effectively took over care and relief responsibilities. These community efforts can be qualified as a great success and are crucial to explaining why certain groups – children in particular – fared better during the famine than others.

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The Hunger Winter
Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945
, pp. 203 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Community Strategies
  • Ingrid de Zwarte, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
  • Book: The Hunger Winter
  • Online publication: 04 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872515.009
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  • Community Strategies
  • Ingrid de Zwarte, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
  • Book: The Hunger Winter
  • Online publication: 04 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872515.009
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  • Community Strategies
  • Ingrid de Zwarte, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
  • Book: The Hunger Winter
  • Online publication: 04 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872515.009
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