Sovereignty and Suspicion

Food Security and Food Sovereignty

This discussion paper explores conceptualisations of food security produced by the World Trade Organisation and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and examines a responsive policy framework food sovereignty – championed by the farming and peasant movement Via Campesina. Conflict over the use and appropriation of plant genetic resources is examined to highlight tensions...

Sovereignty , Autonomy and Conditional Spending

One of the most conspicuous features of the Rehnquist era has been the revival of the concept of enumerated powers as an important theme in constitutional jurisprudence. In the period from 1937 through 1995, the Court routinely concluded that the Commerce Clause granted the federal government power to regulate private activities which were traditionally relegated to local control. However, in U...

Globalization and economic sovereignty PROFESSOR

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Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Sovereignty

There is a growing consensus in Ecological Economics that consumer preferences are neither fixed nor given, but rather endogenously determined by socio-economic and institutional factors. Hence, policy may promote “green” preferences directly. Yet any intervention in processes of preference formation seems to conflict with widely held liberal intuitions, imperfectly represented by the principle...

Beyond Epistemic Sovereignty