by Jean Ziegler · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253121152
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«L'Empire de la honte» is the political essay by Jean Ziegler, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (344 pages, in French).
Jean Ziegler denounces the refeudalization of the world: large transcontinental corporations subjugate the peoples of the southern hemisphere with two weapons, debt and hunger. Indebted states abdicate their sovereignty and populations, defeated by hunger, renounce freedom. Ziegler dismantles this machinery of oppression.
Updated edition (2007) with an unpublished preface by the author and an unpublished afterword «Le discours censuré de Salzbourg»; corresponds to volume 30907 of the Le Livre de Poche collection.
For readers interested in international politics, critical economics, and human rights.
Jean Ziegler is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
