Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reconstructing Rights: New Transnational Governance

这项研究将评估民间社会在参与性治理中的作用及其对与农业市场和粮食监管有关的权利主张、战略和世界观的影响。 全球粮食市场的扩大，加上过去二十年来粮食价格的上涨，使得关于如何在国内和国际上进行监管的主张受到质疑。 各种规模的粮食政策机构采用了新的体制结构，以吸收多个支持者的意见。在美国，市政府、地区政府和州政府已经建立了由食品系统的多个利益相关者组成的食品政策委员会。这种新出现的“多利益攸关方”或“新”治理形式是更广泛的监管改革的一部分，跨国粮食政策机构也采用了这种改革。本研究探讨参与这些新形式的立法如何导致选民在新的治理场所重新配置和重新构想基于权利的主张，并最终改变人权的政治。为了回答这个问题，本民族志项目将通过参与者观察和社会网络分析，分析参与粮食政策委员会，国内和跨国网络，以及粮食政策监管的全球网站。它有助于人类学和社会法律的研究的学术经验，检查新形式的监管的效果，一个新的跨国法律的文化的出现。该项目对于在有许多利益攸关方的多个地点对治理感兴趣的决策者和公民将很重要

This study will evaluate civil society's role in participatory governance and its implications for rights claims, strategies, and worldviews as related to the regulation of agrarian markets and food. The expansion of the global food market coupled with rising food prices over the past two decades have occasioned claims concerning how regulation should proceed both domestically and internationally. Food policy institutions on multiple scales have adopted new institutional structures to include input from multiple constituencies. In the United States, municipal, regional, and state governments have developed food policy councils comprised of the multiple stakeholders of the food system. This emerging form of "multi-stakeholder" or "new" governance is part of a broader regulatory reform that has also been adopted by transnational food policy institutions. This study asks how participation in these new forms of lawmaking leads constituents to reconfigure and reimagine rights-based claims within new sites of governance and ultimately transforms the politics of human rights.To answer this question, this ethnographic project will analyze participation in food policy councils, domestic and transnational networks, as well as global sites of food policy regulation through participant observation and social network analysis. It contributes to scholarship in anthropology and socio-legal studies by empirically examining the efficacy of new forms of regulation the emergence of a new transnational legal culture. The project will be important to policymakers and citizens with interests in governance in multiple sites with many stakeholders