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管理农业市场和粮食有关的权利主张、战略和世界观的影响。全球粮食市场的扩张，加上过去20年来不断上涨的粮食价格，引发了关于应如何在国内和国际上进行监管的说法。多个规模的粮食政策机构采用了新的体制结构，纳入了来自多个支持者的投入。在美国，市政、地区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”治理形式是跨国粮食政策机构也采用的更广泛的监管改革的一部分。为了回答这个问题，这个民族志项目将通过参与者观察和社会网络分析，分析参与食品政策委员会、国内和跨国网络以及全球食品政策监管网站的参与情况。它对人类学和社会法律研究的学术做出了贡献，通过经验检验了新的监管形式的效力，新的跨国法律文化的出现。该项目将对政策制定者和公民具有重要意义，他们对拥有许多利益相关者的多个地点的治理感兴趣

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