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

Priscilla Claeys

doi:10.1177/0038038512451534

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

Priscilla Claeys

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	844-860
Number of pages	17
Journal	Sociology
Volume	46
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512451534
Publication status	Published - Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

food sovereignty
human rights
institutionalization
peasant movements
peasants' rights
rights master frame
social movements
Vía Campesina

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science

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