Law And The Political Economy Of Hunger

Author : Anna Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192557216

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Law and the Political Economy of Hunger by Anna Chadwick Pdf

This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to adequate food, as well as in the positioning of law, in the form of regulation, as a tool to protect society from 'unruly' markets. In this monograph, Anna Chadwick draws on theoretical work from a range of disciplines to challenge accounts that portray law's role in the context of hunger as exclusively remedial. The book takes as its starting point claims that financial traders 'caused' the 2007-8 global food crisis by speculating in financial instruments linked to the prices of staple grains. The introduction of new regulations to curb the 'excesses' of the financial sector in order to protect the food insecure reinforces the dominant perception that law can solve the problem. Chadwick investigates a number of different legal regimes spanning public international law, international economic law, transnational governance, private law, and human rights law to gather evidence for a counterclaim: law is part of the problem. The character of the contemporary global food system-a food system that is being progressively 'financialized'-owes everything to law. If world hunger is to be eradicated, Chadwick argues, then greater attention needs to be paid to how different legal regimes operate to consistently privilege the interests of the wealthy few over the needs of poor and the hungry.

Author : Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134273119

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Human Rights and World Trade by Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez Pdf

This book provides an analysis of the political viability of basic human rights and offers an in-depth investigation of the largest violation of human rights: world hunger.

Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Kumar Sen,Athar Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198288832

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The Political Economy of Hunger by Jean Drèze,Amartya Kumar Sen,Athar Hussain Pdf

The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and satiety, hunger kills millions more people each year than wars or political repression. Now this abridged version, edited by Athar Hussain, puts the most influential essays from the three-volume work within the reach of concerned citizens. Ranging from Africa to South Asia to China, and written by an international array of authorities, the essays included in this abridgement give the best available analysis of the causes of worldwide hunger and deprivation, and the best hope for effective aid policies in the future.

Author : Anne Saab
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108473378

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Narratives of Hunger by Anne Saab Pdf

An examination of how international law fails to challenge fundamental assumptions and address practical issues of hunger and climate change.

Author : Emily Webster,Ankita Gupta,Ruth Ambros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1032839252

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Transnational Food Security by Emily Webster,Ankita Gupta,Ruth Ambros Pdf

Transnational Food Security addresses food security from an international relations, political economy and legal perspective analysing the relationship between food security and the environment and climate change, trade, finance and contracts, and the intersection between food and human rights. The topic of food concerns one of the most basic and profound aspects of human survival. Universal and equal access to food is, at the same time, ridden with problems of power, inequality, distribution and implicated in old and new geopolitical conflicts. As such, 'food' and food security are central to conditions of poverty and hunger, development and 'modernisation', transitional justice and rule of law reform around the world. As a problem of critique and scholarly inquiry, food prompts an inter-disciplinary assessment of the nature of food security in the modern world. The contributors to this book take us deep into the complexity of food and illustrate the challenges of adequately understanding and approaching questions of food security and food sovereignty in a globally interconnected world. Transnational Food Security will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, political economy, and transnational law. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Transnational Legal Theory Journal.

Author : Alessandro Bonanno,Lawrence Busch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782548263

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Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food by Alessandro Bonanno,Lawrence Busch Pdf

This book tackles the central question of the political and structural changes and characteristics that govern agriculture and food. Original contributions explore this highly globalized economic sector by analyzing salient geographical regions and sub

Author : Jean Baptiste Say
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073767660

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A Treatise on Political Economy, Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth by Jean Baptiste Say Pdf

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Economics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00307505

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Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Jayson L. Lusk,Juttta Roosen,Jason Shogren
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199681327

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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy by Jayson L. Lusk,Juttta Roosen,Jason Shogren Pdf

First reference on food consumption and policy.

Author : Barbara Harriss-White,Lucia Michelutti
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353244

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The Wild East by Barbara Harriss-White,Lucia Michelutti Pdf

The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined. By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.

Author : Harsh Mander
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184758603

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Ash in the Belly by Harsh Mander Pdf

Ash in the Belly is a penetrating account of men, women and children living with hunger, illuminated by their courage in trying to cope and survive. It is simultaneously an investigation into the political economy of hunger whereby one in every two children is malnourished despite the creation of wealth and economic growth. Mander critically examines the increasing economic inequalities, the range of State failures and public indifference, in general, and brings out how they have contributed to creating this grim situation. While doing so, he argues passionately for the passage of a universal right to food law which guarantees food to all persons not as State benevolence but as a legal entitlement.

Author : Scott Timcke
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529221770

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The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune by Scott Timcke Pdf

Luck greatly influences a person’s quality of life. Yet little of our politics looks at how institutions can amplify good or bad luck that widens social inequality. But societies can change their fortune. Too often debates about inequality focus on the accuracy of data or modelling while missing the greater point about ethics and exploitation. In the wake of growing disparity between the 1% and other classes, this book combines philosophical insights with social theory to offer a much-needed political economy of life chances. Timcke advances new thought on the role luck plays in redistributive justice in 21st century capitalism.

Author : Clair Apodaca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136994814

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Child Hunger and Human Rights by Clair Apodaca Pdf

Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide. This book includes moral, economic, political and legal components to the research on the child’s right to be free from hunger. Using two methods of investigation; the first a historical comparative method based on the systematic analysis of the content of historical materials, government documents, policy statements, state budgets, newspaper reports and other public records, and the second is statistical analysis. Apodaca investigates beyond the suffering, deformities, and deaths of children, to child malnutrition resulting in reduced physical and mental development threatening the child’s life opportunities, the prospects of further generations, and the growth of the economy. Examining the connection between governmental agricultural, economic and financial policies, international donor policies, and transnational corporate voluntary codes of conduct affecting child malnutrition rates, this book will be of interest to policy-makers, activists, students and scholars of human rights, social justice, international ethics, development, international relations and law.

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509524709

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Mass Starvation by Alex de Waal Pdf

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Author : Poul F. Kjaer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108493116

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The Law of Political Economy by Poul F. Kjaer Pdf

"Political economy themes have - directly and indirectly - been a central concern of law and legal scholarship ever since political economy emerged as a concept in the early seventeenth century, a development which was re-inforced by the emergence of political economy as an independent area of scholarly enquiry in the eighteenth century, as developed by the French physiocrats. This is not surprising in so far as the core institutions of the economy and economic exchanges, such as property and contract, are legal institutions.In spite of this intrinsic link, political economy discourses and legal discourses dealing with political economy themes unfold in a largely separate manner. Indeed, this book is also a reflection of this, in so far as its core concern is how the law and legal scholarship conceive of and approach political economy issues"--