Abstract:As social movements engage in transnational legal processes, they have articulated innovative rights claims outside the nation-state frame. This chapter analyzes emerging practices of legal mobilization in response to global governance through a case study of the "right to food sovereignty." The claim of food sovereignty has been mobilized transnationally by smallscale food producers, food-chain workers, and the food insecure to oppose the liberalization of food and agriculture. The author analyzes the formati… Show more
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