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Highlights
- Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world.
- About the Author: Michelle Jurkovich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
- 186 Pages
- Social Science, General
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About the Book
"This book investigates barriers to advocacy around a critical economic and social right-the right to food-and in so doing challenges dominant understandings of the relationships between human rights, norms, and law"--Book 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.
Review Quotes
Who is responsible? How should it be done? In Feeding the Hungry, a concise and insightful analysis of anti-hunger advocacy, Michelle Jurkovich explores this conceptual problem.
-- "Times Literary Supplement"About the Author
Michelle Jurkovich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
