Feeding the Hungry : : Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger / / Michelle Jurkovich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Jurkovich, Michelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones, 1 halftone, 1 figure, 5 charts

Food insecurity poses one of the world's most pressing development and human security challenges. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich examines the social and normative environment 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, the hunger issue area lacks a shared social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. Drawing on interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger organizations as well as archival research at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the United States and United Kingdom National Archives, Jurkovich provides a new analytic model of transnational advocacy. In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social right—the right to food—Jurkovich challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Most important, Feeding the Hungry provides an expanded conceptual toolkit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Politics of Chronic Hunger -- 1. Putting Hunger on the Agenda -- 2. How to Think about Advocacy -- 3. Not All Human Rights Have Norms -- 4. Hunger at the Nexus of Rights and Development -- 5. The Limits of Law -- Conclusion: Policy Implications and the Road Ahead -- Appendix -- References -- Index