Law and the Political Economy of Hunger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-07
Mått:165 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt:524 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The History and Theory of International Law
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198823940

Utforska kategorier

Folkrätt inom Juridik
Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomiska system inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Anna Chadwick is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She started her current job after completing a two-year Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, in Florence. She was awarded her doctorate by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in November 2015, and holds a Masters Degree in Public International Law and International and UK Human Rights Law (LLM) from King's College London, and an LLB from the University of Leeds. Anna spent one year working for the legal charity, Reprieve, where she undertook investigation and research on death penalty cases. She is also part of a joint research initiative on food and finance. In 2017, she co-designed and taught a new Masters course 'Food, Law, and Finance' at International University College of Turin. Anna has also taught courses on International Human Rights Law, and World Hunger and the Global Legal Order.

Recensioner i media

[S]uccessfully brings valuable insights from legal and economic theory together with lucid analysis of financial law and food systems. Through careful analysis, Chadwick successfully distils the complexity of financial instruments into understandable private law concepts. It will be of interest to academics in the field of international law, legal and financial theory, and food systems. The book is as much an illuminating exposition of the financial industries' feeding frenzy as it is a sobering account of the real consequences that a fixation on risk, profit and price can have on access to food. Chadwick successfully incriminates and charges a variety of legal regimes with many of the ills that society faces today in relation to Food Security. It is through excellent contributions such as Law and the Political Economy of Hunger that we find new understandings of how hunger is produced and sustained through law.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1: World Hunger, the Global Food Crisis, and International Law2: Neoliberalism and the Financialization of Agriculture3: Food Commodity Speculation4: Regulation5: 'OTC', 'Financial' Innovation, and Food Commodity Speculation6: Human Rights, Law, and Political Economy