![]() ![]() Refusal to Eat is the first book to compile a global history of this vital form of modern protest, the hunger strike. By choosing to hunger strike, a prisoner wields a last-resort personal power that communicates viscerally, in a way that is undeniable-especially when broadcast over prison barricades through media and to movements outside. It is a weapon of the weak, potentially open to all. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living under conditions of maximal constraint, as in the prisons of apartheid South Africa, Israeli prisons for Palestinian prisoners, and the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. ![]()
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