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- Boyer, Kurtis, et al.
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The Limits of Species Advocacy
- 2014
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In: Political Animals and Animal Politics. - 9781137434616 ; , s. 123-134
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Boyer offers an innovative analysis of the relationship between species protection and the different ways we are able to become emotionally responsive and morally committed to animals in politics. Using the politicalization of polar bear advocacy as an illustration, this chapter draws attention to how species advocacy comes to be transposed onto politics through habitat protection or other intermediary political goals not exclusive to species protection. The chapter reveals species advocacy as existing through single, sometimes competing incarnations of advocacy. By referring to literature that discusses anthropocentrism, altruism, and the representation of animals, Boyer is able to uncover the psycho-social conditions that underlie and guide much of todays popularized species advocacy -- ultimately leading us to ask the troubling question of whether it is our attachment towards species and the manner in which it becomes articulated in politics, which poses the greatest threat to species protection.
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- Svärd, Per-Anders, 1973-
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Slaughter and Animal Welfarism in Sweden 1900–1944
- 2014
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In: Political Animals and Animal Politics. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137434616 ; , s. 135-149
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Animal welfare has become a nearly indisputable value in many countries today. States, politicians, consumers and animal protectionists — indeed, even the animal industries themselves — all claim to support the ideology and politics of animal welfare. Many also embrace the idea that animal welfarism has been an historic success story. Though change has been slow, it remains a common assumption that animal welfare reform has followed an essentially progressive historical trajectory. This assumption is shared even by some of the more philosophically radical animal advocates who feel that welfarism, while in itself far from satisfactory, constitutes a necessary step on the road towards the full recognition of animal rights (see, for example, Friedrich 2011, Phelps 2007). From this perspective, the current regulatory system of animal protection legislation is often seen as a crucial advance over the less comprehensive anti-cruelty laws of a previous era. Extrapolating from this perceived development, the hope is that real rights for animals will grow out of animal welfarism in much the same way as welfarism grew out of an earlier anti-cruelty discourse.
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