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- Libell, Monica
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The pros and cons of anthropomorphism
- 2004
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Ingår i: EurSafe.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Much of the animal ethics and welfare debate today is accused of anthropomorphism, i.e. that human mental states are ascribed to animals. It is generally claimed that these attitudes does no service to animals, since they, according to many natural scientists, usually fail to recognize what animals really are, that animals' needs and responses are actually very different from humans'. The damaging consequences seem to abound: The meat industry laments the so-called disneyfication of animals, that consumers identify pigs with the "movie stars" in Babe. This leads to a decrease in meat consumption and the promotion of legal restrictions, which financially strain the industry. Veterinarians are confronted with clients who treat their pets like small children. Even very basic animal needs may be frustrated which sometimes leads to the point where serious welfare problems arise. However, anthropomorphism is a complex cultural and emotional phenomenon, as it is closely related to the human capacity of feeling empathy for another individual. This may at times be misguided, but proves at other times to be a powerful and useful tool in the interaction with non-human animals. Historically it was instrumental in raising the awareness of the plight of animals in society, which led to ethical benefits such as demands for the humane treatment of animals and even for animal rights. Anthropomorphism should therefore not offhand be regarded as a defect in society but as a potentially valuable cultural, ethical, and scientific force.
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- Libell, Monica
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Är Peter Singer fascist?
- 1996
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Ingår i: Filosofisk tidskrift. - 0348-7482. ; :2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Martin, Anton Rolandsson, et al.
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Självbiografiska anteckningar
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svenska Linnésällskapets årsskrift. - 0375-2038. ; 2009, s. 77-122
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- Mårald, Erland, 1970-, et al.
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Sustainability Metamorphosis : An Inconvenient Change
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nature and Culture. - : Berghahn Journals. - 1558-6073 .- 1558-5468. ; 16:2, s. 1-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The institutionalization of sustainability agendas on the local and global levels has largely failed to deliver the promised change. In this essay, we develop the idea of sustainability metamorphosis as a way to break with the pathological paradigm of sustainable development that weakens society’s capacity to transform in the face of global crises. Sustainability metamorphosis, in our understanding, draws on the Bakthian perspective of carnivalization and dialogical truth. In this sense, sustainability metamorphosis is an outlook on change in society and a source of strategies for long-term societal change. Our understanding of metamorphosis is inspired by the historical and literary understandings that saw ungraspable forces, acting upon both inner and outer worlds, and suspended hierarchies as the sources of necessary but inconvenient change
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- Nordberg, Karin
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Folkhemmets röst : radion som folkbildare 1925-1950
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present thesis deals with radio and adult education. It shows how Swedish radio, in cooperation with the governing authorities, the academic and (primarily) radical elite, succeeded in popularizing the ideaof the folkhem and its ideology, with the ambition of both modernizing and democratizing the Swedish population en masse. These efforts stemmed from a variety of phenomena working in tandem, of which the adult education movement was the most energetic and active. A special ”lecture” department was created in 1931 with one of the foremost adult educators in the country, Yngve Hugo, as its first director. A vast reform programme for the benefit of the Swedish people was initiated with the help of radio; with that ”social engineering” entered the broadcasting studios. The instruments used in this task were seriesoflectures, ”radio-circles” and printed study material.This mission was supported by a unique paragraph in the charter between the government and Swedish radio (AB,Radiotjänst), stating that radio is required to promote adult education via uplifting entertainment, educational programmes and by establishing contact with the various eduational organizations. During the 30s and 40s radio became an educational institution like any other. Its ideology was based on central and national values, giving priority to ”highbrow” academic subjects and promotingwelfare and modernity. Local voices were at first silenced in favour ofthe ”finest” scholars and specialists.This was part of a public service ideology with a strong centralist view of education.The very signum ofthe lecture department during the 30s and 40s was ”university extension”. Scientific thinking and the idea ofthe ”active citizen” was promoted in the radio series created specially for thelistening circles. Despite democratic ambitions, propaganda efforts are evident. The strong influence exercised by educational institutions made the lecture genre very tenacious and a parade of professors, scientists and experts took possession of radio. Participation of working class people, women, and the young was found lacking, until reportage, interviews and direct contact with the audience challenged the one-way nature ofthe communication and made the medium more oral. Important factors in generating new forms were the mobile technology and some innovative individuals. ”Hometown reportage” and ”housewife programming” made it possible for ordinary people to enter the medium as participants.The ”radio circle” project was conducted until the end of 40s, when fading interest on behalf of the educational movement and a new perception of radio as a medium produced a new mentality, and anew, critical journalism was introduced to the medium. Journalists were eager to distance themselves from the idea of radio as a ”school” with an expressed pedagogical profile. This process was hastened by changes in the conditions for educational work brought on by the new government report on education in 1946 in tandem with the professionalization of radio journalists. Radio’s main educational task became to encompass the entire populace, not to satisfy special interest groups. To do so, radio needed to include more entertaining aspects in its educational efforts. The power of radio as popular educator lay in its potential for stimulating a thirst for knowledge and creating understanding and insight. Beside the neohumanistic and civic educational ideals, radio promoted new educational ideals of a social and psychological nature, with goals formulated by the individual her/himself.
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- Norrby, Jens, 1992
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From imperial discussion to transnational debate. The Commonwealth journal The Round Table and the Indo-Pakistani partition, 1947–1957
- 2020
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Ingår i: History of European Ideas. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0191-6599 .- 1873-541X. ; 46:1, s. 25-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The political shockwaves from the partition of India and Pakistan were felt far beyond the local tragedies that followed in its wake–not least in British imperial politics, where the two new Dominions and the subsequent reorganisation of the Commonwealth drastically altered the character of the imperial machinery. This article covers the first decade of Pakistan’s and India’s independence through the activity of the Commonwealth journal The Round Table. Through studying the interaction between the local correspondents and the English editorial staff, it argues that the inclusion of these new members, whose political class did not primarily stem from settlers, pressed the journal to transform its character. Thus, the journal went from facilitating imperial discussion, in which a homogenous group of contributors sought agreement, to transnational debate, in which a heterogeneous set of national perspectives were contrasted without any substantial reconciliation. As such, this meant the breakdown of the journal’s vision of a united, disinterested imperial truth and in its place spawned a multitude of parallel national views.
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