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  3. Narratives of Hunger in International Law
  • Cited by 15
  • Anne Saab, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781108670906
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108670906
Subjects:
Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
Series:
Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law (140)
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This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story is told through a specific case study of genetically engineered seeds purportedly made to be 'climate-ready'. Two narratives of hunger run through the storyline: the prevailing neoliberal narrative that focuses on increasing food production and relying on technological innovations and private sector engagement, and the oppositional and aspirational food sovereignty narrative that focuses on improving access to and distribution of food and rejects technological innovations and private sector engagement as the best solutions. This book argues that the way in which voices in the neoliberal narrative use international law reinforces fundamental assumptions about hunger and climate change, and the way in which voices in the food sovereignty narrative use international law fails to question and challenge these assumptions.

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