Matthew Canfield
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 91955 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Canfield |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Canfield |
| FIRMA | CANFIELD M |
| AFILIACIONES | Hague Institute for Global Justice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3543-7563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The promises and tensions of socio-legal participatory action research
Socio-legal scholarship has long been driven by a commitment to social change. Yet scholars continue to debate how best to pursue politically engaged empirical research – especially in relation to the elite audiences that influence the production of socio-legal knowledge. Increasingly, researchers are turning to participatory action research (PAR) as a strategy of scholar-activism. PAR centres the knowledge and agency of marginalised communities …
Introduction to special issue
The question of how to pursue politically relevant and engaged scholarship has been an ongoing theme within socio-legal scholarship. In the United States of America, Presidential Addresses of the Law and Society Association have consistently urged greater political engagement (Lempert 2001; Seron 2016; Scheppele 2023). In the United Kingdom, journals such as Social & Legal Studies have placed critical and engaged scholarship at the core of their …
Multistakeholderism and Human Rights
Multistakeholder processes (MSPs) are fast becoming the primary form of collaboration across many fields of global governance. Proponents argue MSPs enable meaningful participation, transparency, and collective ownership of decisions, while critics claim they dilute state accountability and empower private actors at the expense of the public good. To date, however, there has been little study of the experience of civil society and community advoc…
Law and Agroecology
Agroecology is emerging as a transformative alternative to industrial food systems, combining research and practice to strengthen agroecosystem resilience and support the well-being of small-scale food producers. Using a systems-based approach, it integrates the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of food systems. Advocacy by researchers and social movements has brought agroecology to the mainstream agenda, prompting scholars to explore t…
‘Feeding the world, byte by byte’
Recent scholarship has shed light on how data-driven food systems may entrench productivist and neo-productivist visions of 'feeding the world.' In this paper, we examine the narratives and institution-building practices of global development actors, asking: What stories do they tell about how data will transform food systems? Whose 'data' are legitimized and whose are overlooked? Our findings point to an emerging imaginary of data productivism—w…
The Anthropology of Legal Form
For most of legal anthropology’s existence as a distinct subfield, ethnographers have studied the function of law rather than its form. With the proliferation of neoliberal technologies of governance, however, anthropologists are increasingly turning to law’s form. This article surveys the anthropology of legal form and its contribution to the study of transnational law and governance. In taking legal form as the object of ethnographic inquiry, l…
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The ideology of innovation
The converging crises of growing food insecurity and climate change have produced a global struggle to govern food systems. While a range of actors promote innovation as a solution to transform food systems, Bill Gates has leveraged his vast philanthropic funding to advocate for a particular vision of technology-driven innovation led by the private sector. This article elaborates Gates' 'ideology of innovation' and analyzes its continuities with …
UN Food Systems Summit 2021
This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral insti…
The Master Translator
Interdisciplinarity is a delicate achievement. We learned this some years ago when the Program in Law and Society at New York University collapsed. News of the administration's reluctance to continue its support of the Program trickled down to us as graduate students in fall 2009. At the time, the Program's Director (and our advisor) was Sally Merry
Banana Brokers
In contrast to hierarchical models of international law, contemporary transnational law is constituted by networks of states, international institutions, multinational corporations, and transnational activists struggling for power by producing competing norms. This essay examines how power is constructed and contested in transnational law through competing social practices of translation. By ethnographically analyzing the conflict over the “Super…
Compromised collaborations
This essay analyses how the relation between food and fuel shapes the practice of collaborative food governance. Dominant explanations for the persistence of global hunger often point to the influence of political-economic inequalities on the production, distribution, and governance of global food. The causes of the 2007–2008 global food crisis, however, suggest the need to examine the entanglements between food and other forms of ecological extr…
Disputing the Global Land Grab
As transnational movements contest economic inequalities and demand inclusion into global decision-making processes, new models of collaborative governance have proliferated. Promoters of this new mode of governance suggest that it can produce "win-win" solutions through inclusive, consensus-based processes, if these arenas of governance account for power asymmetries within their rules and processes. Yet, by focusing on procedural aspects of coll…
Law
The ideology of innovation
The converging crises of growing food insecurity and climate change have produced a global struggle to govern food systems. While a range of actors promote innovation as a solution to transform food systems, Bill Gates has leveraged his vast philanthropic funding to advocate for a particular vision of technology-driven innovation led by the private sector. This article elaborates Gates' 'ideology of innovation' and analyzes its continuities with …
Disputing the Global Land Grab
As transnational movements contest economic inequalities and demand inclusion into global decision-making processes, new models of collaborative governance have proliferated. Promoters of this new mode of governance suggest that it can produce "win-win" solutions through inclusive, consensus-based processes, if these arenas of governance account for power asymmetries within their rules and processes. Yet, by focusing on procedural aspects of coll…
Banana Brokers
In contrast to hierarchical models of international law, contemporary transnational law is constituted by networks of states, international institutions, multinational corporations, and transnational activists struggling for power by producing competing norms. This essay examines how power is constructed and contested in transnational law through competing social practices of translation. By ethnographically analyzing the conflict over the “Super…
The Anthropology of Legal Form
For most of legal anthropology’s existence as a distinct subfield, ethnographers have studied the function of law rather than its form. With the proliferation of neoliberal technologies of governance, however, anthropologists are increasingly turning to law’s form. This article surveys the anthropology of legal form and its contribution to the study of transnational law and governance. In taking legal form as the object of ethnographic inquiry, l…
Law
Compromised collaborations
This essay analyses how the relation between food and fuel shapes the practice of collaborative food governance. Dominant explanations for the persistence of global hunger often point to the influence of political-economic inequalities on the production, distribution, and governance of global food. The causes of the 2007–2008 global food crisis, however, suggest the need to examine the entanglements between food and other forms of ecological extr…
Disputing the Global Land Grab
As transnational movements contest economic inequalities and demand inclusion into global decision-making processes, new models of collaborative governance have proliferated. Promoters of this new mode of governance suggest that it can produce "win-win" solutions through inclusive, consensus-based processes, if these arenas of governance account for power asymmetries within their rules and processes. Yet, by focusing on procedural aspects of coll…
Banana Brokers
In contrast to hierarchical models of international law, contemporary transnational law is constituted by networks of states, international institutions, multinational corporations, and transnational activists struggling for power by producing competing norms. This essay examines how power is constructed and contested in transnational law through competing social practices of translation. By ethnographically analyzing the conflict over the “Super…
The Master Translator
Interdisciplinarity is a delicate achievement. We learned this some years ago when the Program in Law and Society at New York University collapsed. News of the administration's reluctance to continue its support of the Program trickled down to us as graduate students in fall 2009. At the time, the Program's Director (and our advisor) was Sally Merry
UN Food Systems Summit 2021
This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral insti…
The Anthropology of Legal Form
For most of legal anthropology’s existence as a distinct subfield, ethnographers have studied the function of law rather than its form. With the proliferation of neoliberal technologies of governance, however, anthropologists are increasingly turning to law’s form. This article surveys the anthropology of legal form and its contribution to the study of transnational law and governance. In taking legal form as the object of ethnographic inquiry, l…
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The ideology of innovation
The converging crises of growing food insecurity and climate change have produced a global struggle to govern food systems. While a range of actors promote innovation as a solution to transform food systems, Bill Gates has leveraged his vast philanthropic funding to advocate for a particular vision of technology-driven innovation led by the private sector. This article elaborates Gates' 'ideology of innovation' and analyzes its continuities with …
‘Feeding the world, byte by byte’
Recent scholarship has shed light on how data-driven food systems may entrench productivist and neo-productivist visions of 'feeding the world.' In this paper, we examine the narratives and institution-building practices of global development actors, asking: What stories do they tell about how data will transform food systems? Whose 'data' are legitimized and whose are overlooked? Our findings point to an emerging imaginary of data productivism—w…
The promises and tensions of socio-legal participatory action research
Socio-legal scholarship has long been driven by a commitment to social change. Yet scholars continue to debate how best to pursue politically engaged empirical research – especially in relation to the elite audiences that influence the production of socio-legal knowledge. Increasingly, researchers are turning to participatory action research (PAR) as a strategy of scholar-activism. PAR centres the knowledge and agency of marginalised communities …
Introduction to special issue
The question of how to pursue politically relevant and engaged scholarship has been an ongoing theme within socio-legal scholarship. In the United States of America, Presidential Addresses of the Law and Society Association have consistently urged greater political engagement (Lempert 2001; Seron 2016; Scheppele 2023). In the United Kingdom, journals such as Social & Legal Studies have placed critical and engaged scholarship at the core of their …
Multistakeholderism and Human Rights
Multistakeholder processes (MSPs) are fast becoming the primary form of collaboration across many fields of global governance. Proponents argue MSPs enable meaningful participation, transparency, and collective ownership of decisions, while critics claim they dilute state accountability and empower private actors at the expense of the public good. To date, however, there has been little study of the experience of civil society and community advoc…
Law and Agroecology
Agroecology is emerging as a transformative alternative to industrial food systems, combining research and practice to strengthen agroecosystem resilience and support the well-being of small-scale food producers. Using a systems-based approach, it integrates the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of food systems. Advocacy by researchers and social movements has brought agroecology to the mainstream agenda, prompting scholars to explore t…
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