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The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement: The Challenge of Institutionalizing Subversion

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Claeys, Priscilla [UCL]

This article analyses the creation of new human rights by a contemporary transnational agrarian movement, Vía Campesina. It makes the case that the movement’s assertion of new rights contributes to shaping a cosmopolitan, multicultural, and anti-hegemonic conception of human rights. It discusses the advantages and constraints of the human rights framework and analyses the creation of new rights by the movement as a way to overcome the limitations of the ‘rights master frame’. It concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges involved in the institutionalization of new rights.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2012
Language Anglais
Journal information "Sociology" - Vol. 46, no.5, p. 844-860 (2012)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd. ((United Kingdom) London)
issn 0038-0385
e-issn 1469-8684
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - DRT/CPDR - Centre de philosophie du droit
Keywords food sovereignty ; human rights ; institutionalization ; peasant movements ; peasants’ rights ; rights master frame ; social movements ; Vía Campesina
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Bibliographic reference Claeys, Priscilla. The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement: The Challenge of Institutionalizing Subversion. In: Sociology, Vol. 46, no.5, p. 844-860 (2012)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/137346