Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change

In Narratives of Hunger in International Law: Feeding the World in Times of Climate Change, Anne Saab primarily presents a way of thinking about international law that focuses on the narratives that invoke it. Saab explores the issue of food security in the face of global climate change to argue that seemingly opposing narratives actually share a common set of assumptions that ultimately benefit the private sector, revealing international law’s contribution to both the narrative of the crisis itself and the narratives for ‘solutions’ within the crisis narrative. The usefulness of Saab’s argument structure is obvious for those engaged in nuanced criticism of neoliberal market-based solutions to global problems or those who seek to restore non-market-based logics to legal and moral reasoning. The narrative methodology is also useful for anyone who wishes to study law as an expressivist phenomenon—as something that is inevitably shot through with and, therefore, always expressing ideology.