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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821835603321

Autore

Jurkovich Michelle <1983->

Titolo

Feeding the hungry : advocacy and blame in the global fight against hunger / / Michelle Jurkovich [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5117-4

1-5017-5116-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

363.8

Soggetti

Food relief - Political aspects

Right to food

Hunger - Political aspects

Food security - Political aspects

Food relief - International cooperation

Hunger - Prevention - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.