This episode of the Global Lunchbox podcast features a conversation with anthropologist Amanda L. Logan about her new book, The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana.

Amanda L. Logan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, where she is affiliated with the Program of African Studies, the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture, and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Her overarching goal is to connect the past to the present through reframing the kinds of questions we ask and empirically bridging the modern/premodern divide. 

The Global Lunchbox series, hosted by the Center for International & Area Studies at Northwestern University, features conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.

This conversation was recorded on May 28, 2021.

(Produced by CA Davis, Digital Storyteller and Producer, Media and Design Studio, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University)

Amanda Logan on her book The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana

The Global Lunchbox podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues. You might think of the podcast as the basement funhouse of world affairs.

Amanda Logan on her book The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana

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