Food Sovereignty and the Recognition of New Rights for Peasants at the UN
A Critical Overview of La Via Campesina's Rights Claims over the Last 20 Years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5831368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Priscilla Claeys (0000-0003-1288-6008, UCLouvain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 452-465 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Globalizations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14747731.2014.957929 |
| OpenAlex | W2005693244 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article explores how human rights framing by the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina (LVC) has evolved over the last 20 years. It discusses how the movement has worked towards institutionalizing new categories of rights, such as the 'right to food sovereignty' and the 'rights of peasants', thereby contributing to the creation of new human rights standards at the United Nations (UN). It also critically addresses some of the challenges the movement has been confronted with when framing its demands in terms of rights. Its overall argument is that LVC has managed to tap the potential of the rhetoric of rights to find common ground, thanks to its innovative use of non-codified rights. This has enabled activists to 'localize' human rights and make them meaningful to their various contexts. However, it contends that further advancing the movement's goals will require serious consideration of some of the key limits of the human rights framework
Food sovereignty · Framing (construction · Right to food · Rights of Nature · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Human Rights and Development
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Climate change and food security in Sri Lanka
Agrarianizing climate accords & discord
Land-based resistance
The naturalization of runaway rights
Democratic land control and human rights
Peasants' rights and agrarian violence in transitional settings
Translating the Politics of Food Sovereignty
Competing Sovereignties, Contested Processes
Empowerment, rights, and global food governance
Sovereignty in a Changing World
Brazil's landless movement and rights 'from below
Food politics and development
Dissuading the state
The ‘tenure guidelines’ as a tool for democratising land and resource control in Latin America
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement
Citizen voice and state response in the context of food system transformations
Peasant and indigenous transnational social movements engaging with climate justice
The state and food security discourses of Indonesia
Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens
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Stepping back and moving in
Human Rights and Social Movements
International Law from Below
Social Movements and the Social Construction of Human Rights
Rights talk
Penser les mouvements sociaux
Freedom Summer
Human Rights in a Posthuman World
The Liberal Project and Human Rights
The Local Relevance of Human Rights
Culture and Rights
Transgressing rights
Food sovereignty or the human right to adequate food
Vers une conception multiculturelle des droits de l'homme
Tackling the new materialities
Transnational Migration, Gender, and Rights
Conjuring Up New Human Rights
Human Rights and Human Dignity
Quand les droits de l'homme deviennent une politique
The power of peasants
Income Rights, Mothers' Rights, or Workers' Rights? Collective Action Frames, Organizational Ideologies, and the American Welfare Rights Movement
The Emergence of the Integrationist Ideology in the Civil Rights Movement
Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge
Peasants Against Globalization
The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement
Framing Processes and Social Movements
Global Depeasantization, 1945-1990
From Peasant Studies to Agrarian Change
The Return of the Native
Emancipation' or 'regulation'? Law, globalization and indigenous peoples' rights in post-war Guatemala
La Vía Campesina
A food regime genealogy
Agrarian change and peasant studies
Food sovereignty
What place for international trade in food sovereignty
Financialization, distance and global food politics
Food sovereignty via the 'peasant way
Peasants' rights and the UN system
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |