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The Human Right to Food as Political Imaginary
Author(s) -
López José Julián
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12098
Subject(s) - the imaginary , normative , politics , human rights , action (physics) , sociology , function (biology) , epistemology , positive economics , political science , collective action , law and economics , law , economics , psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , psychotherapist , biology
The overwhelmingly normative nature of the study of Economic, Social, and Cultural ( ESC ) human rights enables ESC rights to function in their default settings as taken for granted norms and principles, originating in international agreements. This paper, instead, probes the social and historical “thingness” of ESC human rights themselves. It analyses the emergence of the Human Right to Food ( HRF ), and proposes a sociological model, political imaginary, as an explanatory tool to identify the historical socio‐discursive conditions of the emergence of the HRF . It uses this model to understand FoodFirst Internal Action Network ( FIAN )'s contributions to the development of the HRF .