CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Wilken-Fricke, Carolin |
|---|---|
| Title | (How) can the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) Empower the (Radical) Struggle for Food Sovereignty? Strategising with Small-Scale Peasants in Austria |
| Summary | This paper aims to produce emancipatory knowledge for the transnational movement of small-scale peasants in its resistance to the corporate food regime. It characterizes La Via Campesina’s demand for food sovereignty as a radical claim and investigates whether the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) is a suitable, radical tool to empower this claim. It analyses the UNDROP from a critical legal studies perspective and argues for the need to bring it back to the grassroots level in a process of re-vernacularisation. The paper contributes to the under-researched field of socioeconomic rights in the Global North and provides a case study of the role of the UNDROP in Austria. In the case study it investigates the peasant condition in Austria and presents insights drawn from a strategising workshop with small-scale peasants held in Vienna in May 2023 on the question how the UNDROP can empower the Austrian movement of small-scale peasants in practice. |
| Supervisor | Winkler, Inga T. |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/wilken_carolin.pdf |
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