scholarly journals Resonance of Moral Shocks in Abolitionist Animal Rights Advocacy: Overcoming Contextual Constraints

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Lee Wrenn
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Movement Building

Abstract Jasper and Poulsen (1995) have long argued that moral shocks are critical for recruitment in the nonhuman animal rights movement. Building on this, Decoux (2009) argues that the abolitionist faction of the nonhuman animal rights movement fails to recruit members because it does not effectively utilize descriptions of suffering. However, the effectiveness of moral shocks and subsequent emotional reactions has been questioned. This article reviews the literature surrounding the use of moral shocks in social movements. Based on this review, it is suggested that the exploitation of emotional reactions to depictions of suffering can sometimes prove beneficial to recruitment, but successful use is contextually rooted in preexisting frameworks, ideology, and identity. It is concluded that a reliance on images and narratives might be misconstrued in a society dominated by nonhuman animal welfare ideology.

The ethical basis of intensive livestock production systems

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 ◽  
pp. 266-266
Author(s):  
G. Gatward
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Many of the ethical issues regarding the livestock production systems of the late twentieth century have concentrated on the process of intensification. The extent of public disquiet at the welfare and ethical implications of intensification has been reflected in the burgeoning membership of animal welfare and animal rights organisations. The reasons for this increase as well as the impact that it has had on the livestock industry can be traced back to the 1960s, to factors such as the growing urbanisation of the population and especially the emergence of the animal rights movement which focused attention on a wide range of issues including the human exploitation of other animal species. This in turn led to a demarcation between those who supported the animal welfare cause and those who argued for animal rights.

The ethical basis of intensive livestock production systems

2002 ◽  
Vol 2002 ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
G. Gatward
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Many of the ethical issues regarding the livestock production systems of the late twentieth century have concentrated on the process of intensification. The extent of public disquiet at the welfare and ethical implications of intensification has been reflected in the burgeoning membership of animal welfare and animal rights organisations. The reasons for this increase as well as the impact that it has had on the livestock industry can be traced back to the 1960s, to factors such as the growing urbanisation of the population and especially the emergence of the animal rights movement which focused attention on a wide range of issues including the human exploitation of other animal species. This in turn led to a demarcation between those who supported the animal welfare cause and those who argued for animal rights.

What Can a Farm Animal Biography Accomplish? The Case of Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Tsovel
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Emotional Attachment ◽  
Young Calf ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

AbstractAgricultural reports and guides, nonhuman animal welfare studies, and animal rights reports attempt to document and convey the condition of nonhuman animals in agriculture. These disciplines tend to resist a prolonged and methodically versatile examination of individual animals. In his pioneer work, Lovenheim (2002), The author produced such a biographical documentation of calves in the dairy and meat industries. He provided an exceptionally prolonged and detailed tracing of their lives as individuals, establishing an emotional attachment in both documenter and reader. Yet, sentiments for the farmers, typical urban conceptions of communication with nonhuman animals, and difficulties in obtaining the relevant information limit Lovenheim's success and imply similar difficulties in other cases.

“New Social Movements” of the Early Nineteenth Century

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Gay Movement ◽  
Definition Of

Sometime After 1968, analysts and participants began to speak of “new social movements” that worked outside formal institutional channels and emphasized lifestyle, ethical, or “identity” concerns rather than narrowly economic goals. A variety of examples informed the conceptualization. Alberto Melucci (1988: 247), for instance, cited feminism, the ecology movement or “greens,” the peace movement, and the youth movement. Others added the gay movement, the animal rights movement, and the antiabortion and prochoice movements. These movements were allegedly new in issues, tactics, and constituencies. Above all, they were new by contrast to the labor movement, which was the paradigmatic “old” social movement, and to Marxism and socialism, which asserted that class was the central issue in politics and that a single political economic transformation would solve the whole range of social ills. They were new even by comparison with conventional liberalism with its assumption of fixed individual identities and interests. The new social movements thus challenged the conventional division of politics into left and right and broadened the definition of politics to include issues that had been considered outside the domain of political action (Scott 1990).

In It for the Nonhuman Animals: Animal Welfare, Moral Certainty, and Disagreements

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Missionary Zeal ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
Good For ◽  
Moral Certainty ◽  
Welfare Workers

AbstractBased on three years' ethnographic research with animal sanctuary workers, this paper argues that a level of moral certainty drives and justifies many of the workers' actions and beliefs. Similar to the "missionary zeal" of nonhuman animal rights activists, this moral certainty divides the world into two neat categories: good for the animals and bad for the animals. This overriding certainty takes precedence over other concerns and pervades all aspects of sanctuary life, resulting in the breakdown of different facets of that life into good and bad homes, good and bad animals, and good and bad workers. The paper, therefore, argues that animal welfare workers may be as "radical" as animal rights activists in one respect—their adherence to the overriding principle of being "in it for the animals."

Animal Rights Activism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Jacobsson ◽  
Jonas Lindblom
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Sociology Of Morality ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Animal Rights Activism

We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim's sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phenomenon-and morality itself as a social fact-the book complements more structural, cultural, or strategic action-based approaches, even as it also demonstrates the continuing value of classical sociological approaches to understanding contemporary society.

scholarly journals Atheism in the American Animal Rights Movement: An Invisible Majority

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 715-739
Author(s):  
Corey Lee Wrenn
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Movement Participation

Previous research has alluded to the predominance of atheism in participant pools of the Nonhuman Animal rights movement (Galvin and Herzog 1992; Guither 1998), as well as the correlation between atheism and support for anti-speciesism (Gabriel et al. 2012; The Humane League 2014), but no study to date has independently examined this demographic. This article presents a profile of 210 atheists and agnostics, derived from a larger survey of 287 American vegans conducted in early 2017. Results demonstrate that atheists constitute one of the movement's largest demographics, and that atheist and agnostic vegans are more likely to adopt veganism out of concern for other animals. While these vegans did not register a higher level of social movement participation than religious vegans, they were more intersectionally oriented and more likely to politically identify with the far left. Given the Nonhuman Animal rights movement's overall failure to target atheists, these findings suggest a strategic oversight in overlooking the movement's potentially most receptive demographic.

Animal Welfare in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Li
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Animal Rights Movement

In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. He considers how Chinese policymakers have approached these issues and speaks with activists from China’s growing animal rights movement.

"I'm Not an Activist!": Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare in the Purebred Dog Rescue Movement

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Greenebaum
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Rescue Workers ◽  
Invisible Work ◽  
Activist Organizations

AbstractPurebred dog rescuers are doing their part to reduce the problems of homeless pets and pet overpopulation. The volunteers studied are doing the daily and invisible work of saving dogs. Because of their perception of the animal rights movement, however, they do not consider themselves part of the animal welfare or animal rights movement, nor do they care to be. Dog rescue organizations agree with academics and activist organizations on the cause of the problem of homeless pets and pet overpopulation, but they differ on the theoretical, political, and ideological solutions to the problem. This paper focuses on the disagreements between rescue workers, activists, and academics and asks whether there is a place for rescue workers within the larger animal protection movement.

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