Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger - Softcover

Jurkovich, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501751786 ISBN 13: 9781501751783

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich 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. 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 UK National Archives, and the U.S. 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 tool kit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.

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About the Author

Michelle Jurkovich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501751786
• ISBN 13: 9781501751783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186