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.

“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).

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.

Learning to Feel: The Neglected Sociology of Social Movements

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian McAllister Groves
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Emotional Tone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Animal Rights Activism

This paper discusses the experience and ideology of emotions among animal rights activists, and more broadly, the applicability of the sociology of emotions to the field of social movements. I examine the case of a social movement which relies heavily on empathy in its initial recruitment, and which has been derisively labeled by outsiders as ‘emotional’. I explain recruitment to animal rights activism by showing how activists develop a ‘vocabulary of emotions’ to rationalize their participation to others and themselves, along with managing the emotional tone of the movement by limiting the kinds of people who can take part in debates about animal cruelty. The interactive nature in which emotions develop in social movements is stressed over previous approaches to emotions in the social movement literature, which treat emotions as impulsive or irrational.

The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Garner ◽  
Yewande Okuleye
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Peter Singer ◽  
Animal Rights Movement ◽  
Friendship Group ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Short Period ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Oxford Group ◽  
The University

This book is an account of the life and times of a loose friendship group (later christened the Oxford Group) of ten people, primarily postgraduate philosophy students, who attended the University of Oxford for a short period of time from the late 1960s. The Oxford Group, which included—most notably—Peter Singer and Richard Ryder, set about thinking about, talking about, and promoting the idea of animal rights and vegetarianism. The group therefore played a role, largely undocumented and unacknowledged, in the emergence of the animal rights movement and the discipline of animal ethics. Most notably, the group produced an edited collection of articles published as Animals, Men and Morals in 1971 that was instrumental in one of their number—Peter Singer—writing Animal Liberation in 1975, a book that has had an extraordinary influence in the intervening years. The book serves as a case study of how the emergence of important work and the development of new ideas can be explained, and, in particular, how far the intellectual development of individuals is influenced by their participation in a creative community.

The Philosophy behind the Movement: Animal Studies versus Animal Rights

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Aaltola
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Animal Rights Movement

AbstractRecently, many pro-animal thinkers have expressed critical views on the animal rights movement. In particular, the movement has been criticized for being philosophically uninformed, politically regressive, and practically unpersuasive. This paper investigates these criticisms and seeks to map out the philosophy behind the grassroots animal rights movement, specifically. It concludes that the criticism presented by animal studies scholars is often misplaced due to a lack of understanding of the philosophical notions within the movement, but that the critics are right to argue that the movement needs to place more emphasis on persuasion.

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