Open AccessHuman Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming Control by Priscilla Claeys
Author(s) -
Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
canadian food studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-3071
DOI - 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.181
Subject(s) - food sovereignty , human rights , sovereignty , human rights movement , power (physics) , social movement , movement (music) , political science , social justice , sociology , environmental ethics , work (physics) , law and economics , law , international human rights law , food security , politics , right to property , aesthetics , geography , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , archaeology , engineering , quantum mechanics , agriculture
Critical discussions of human rights have featured prominently in the development studies literature. While many social actors have utilized human rights to advance their goals, the framework has also been criticized for its tendency to individualize struggles and emphasize legal dimensions of justice, while ignoring issues of power. Despite these critiques, rights discourse continues to resonate within the food sovereignty movement—“a transnational movement of rural social organizations that work towards achieving structural changes in the global food system” (Claeys, 2015, p. 1).