The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement: The Challenge of Institutionalizing Subversion

Claeys, Priscilla
(2012) Sociology — Vol. 46, n° 5, p. 844-860 (2012)

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This article analyses the creation of new human rights by a contemporary transnational agrarian movement, Vía Campesina. It makes the case that the movement’s assertion of new rights contributes to shaping a cosmopolitan, multicultural, and anti-hegemonic conception of human rights. It discusses the advantages and constraints of the human rights framework and analyses the creation of new rights by the movement as a way to overcome the limitations of the ‘rights master frame’. It concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges involved in the institutionalization of new rights.
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Claeys, P. (2012). The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement: The Challenge of Institutionalizing Subversion. Sociology, 46(5), 844-860. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512451534 (Original work published 2012)