Entre conceitos e epistemologias: uma revisão sistemática de literatura sobre a fome na Faixa de Gaza

Abstract

This research analyzes the main concepts used in specialized literature to define hunger in the Gaza Strip and how they reflect political, legal, and epistemological disputes surrounding this crisis. Based on specialized literature on hunger in the Gaza Strip, the study draws on central concepts such as starvation, humanitarian crisis, hunger as a weapon of war, and genocide. Using a qualitative approach, the Systematic Literature Review method was employed, adapted to the field of Social Sciences. The results demonstrate the predominance of concepts linked to Food and Nutritional Security and the underrepresentation of critical and decolonial perspectives, such as Food Sovereignty. This highlights the existence of disputes in the theoretical field, in which certain approaches tend to benefit specific groups and shape institutional policies to combat hunger. Therefore, it is essential to discuss which concepts predominate in the specialized literature and what their analytical and political implications are. This discussion contributes to the analysis of the phenomenon of hunger in its multiple dimensions, both empirical and theoretical, favoring the formulation of more comprehensive and effective strategies to combat it.