Feeding the hungry : advocacy and blame in the global fight against hunger / Michelle Jurkovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jurkovich, Michelle, 1983- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food relief--Political aspects.

Food relief.

Right to food.

Hunger--Political aspects.

Hunger.

Food security--Political aspects.

Food security.

Food relief--International cooperation.

Hunger--Prevention--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. This book examines the social and normative environments in which international anti-hunger organizations are working and argues that despite international law ascribing responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food of their citizens, there is no shared social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. The book provides a new analytic model of transnational advocacy. In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social right - the right to food - the book challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Most important, the book provides an expanded conceptual tool kit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.

Contents:

Putting Hunger on the Agenda

How to Think about Advocacy

Not All Human Rights Have Norms

Hunger at the Nexus of Rights and Development

The Limits of Law.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501751172

1501751174

9781501751165

1501751166

OCLC:

1125281362