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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"animal rights"”.
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Performing the Wound in Animal Rights: Probing Performative Trauma Approaches and Processes within Animal Rights Activism in the UK
… explores the intersection of performance and animal rights activism through the lens of trauma, demonstrating the power of performance as a tool for advocacy and social change. Employing a practice-based methodology, it examines two key performance projects: Box of Shadows, a live, …
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The persuasive impact of disgust-provoking images in animal-rights campaigns
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Communication, 2010
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Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
… discussions on the metaphysical nature of rights. We have almost half a century of moral theory arguing for the moral rights of animals. Surprisingly, these two literatures have not intersected much. This leaves open whether the nature of rights could preclude the possibility of animal …
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Constitutional protection of animal “rights” in South Africa and India: A legal comparison
The human-animal relationship has several inconsistencies. This is because of the contradictions on how human beings treat animals. In certain instances, human beings have shown love and affection towards animals, while in some instances, there has been a highest level of cruelty towards animals. …
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The Interdependent Morality Directive: An extension of the animal rights and environmental ethics debate
… Morality Directive: An Extension of the Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics Debate offers a foundation that seeks to reconcile the contending arguments from the animal rights and the environmental ethics schools of thought. By constantly emphasizing the interdependency of all members …
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Harness Electricity, Free the Mules: Animal Rights and the Electrification of the Streetcars in New Orleans
… and society. New Orleanians admiration for the animals turned into concern when the rigors of work became apparent to the public, as mules suffered from the abuses of drivers, the seedy practices of street railway companies, malnutrition, and exhaustion. As a direct result, the Louisiana Society …
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Artistic Forms of Activism: Representations of Animal Rights and Veganism Through the Arts and their Psychological Reception
Η παρούσα διατριβή επιδιώκει να διερευνήσει τον ρόλο της καλλιτεχνικής έκφρασης ως μέσου ακτιβισμού στον τομέα των δικαιωμάτων των μη ανθρώπινων ζώων και της vegan ηθικής. Η τέχνη, μέσα από τις πολλαπλές μορφές της, τη μουσική, τις εικαστικές τέχνες, την street art, τον κινηματογράφο και τη …
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Using "Ag-Gag" Outrage and Corporate Rebranding to Achieve a Public Image Makeover for the Animal Rights Movement
… victories—particularly in the realm of companion animal protections—the animal rights movement has failed to make substantial progress in other focal areas, including the acquisition of increased rights for food animals on factory farms. The public image of the movement has taken a hit in recent …
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Assessing the challenge of policing animal rights extremism in the UK and the changing impact on community safety and human rights in the period 2004-2010
This thesis explores animal rights activism and associated extremism between the period 2004 - 2010 in the UK and proposes that this post 2004 period witnessed a new era in animal rights extremism comparable to the strategic change seen in 'new terrorism'. It argues that following the successful …
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Becoming and Remaining an Activist: A Qualitative Study of Animal and Disability Rights Activism among Older Youth
… toward becoming and remaining involved in the animal rights movement: 1) education, 2) gender, 3) lifestyle, 4) parental involvement, 5) first event, 6) empathy, and 7) collective identity. This research study also adopted a comparative lens and explored the similarities and differences in …
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When cultures collide : a rhetorical history of the Makah whaling controversy.
… Makah's main opponents in the controversy were animal rights organizations such as the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Progressive Animal Welfare Society, and the Sea Defense Alliance. This thesis analyzes the ways in which the Makah and their opponents framed the situation, the topoi and …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
The contemporary animal rights movement, in extending moral consideration to<br/>nonhuman animals, has in diverse ways already contributed to an expansion of the boundaries of the ethical community and what that may constitute. However, many environmentalists argue there is a failure within animal …
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Issues in the Care of Farm Animals: Current History of the Movement in Selected States
Many animal care practices commonly accepted as a regular part of the agricultural industry are being questioned by organizations advocating for the care of farm and companion animals. The use of gestation crates for pregnant sows, veal crates for veal calves, and battery cages for egg-laying hens …
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The economics of animal welfare: an appraisal of welfare issues ifn the South African poultry industry
Growing consumer awareness of animal welfare has co-evolved with increases in intensive farming, particularly of battery chickens. This rise in consumer awareness recently saw bans on battery farming in parts of Europe. This thesis addresses the difficulties that would follow any similar attempt to …
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More Equal Than Others: Animals in the Age of the Human Rights Aristocracy
Should we confer fundamental rights on nonhuman animals? Or would this undermine the rights of human beings? I answer these questions, first, by showing that they are not new, but go back at least as far as the eighteenth century. I identify two partly conflicting intellectual currents of the …
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Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse
… groups—Army of God (anti-abortion) and Animal Liberation Front (animal rights). I find that Islamist propaganda appeals to eligible in-groups, defines out-groups, and offers solutions to deal with the out-groups’ supposed threats. While we may expect that the other groups would display …
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The zoo as paradoxical discourse : a social space of paradoxical construction and deconstruction of knowledge about animals
… of the knowledge and meaning of non-domestic animals. It examines the influence of current animal rights and conservation discourse on the evolution of the zoo's architecture and purpose, and its effect on those that use the zoo. Fieldwork was conducted in three different zoos in Cape Town; …
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Bloodsport and the Michael Vick Dogfighting Case: A Critical Cultural Analysis
… Vick's notoriety opened the opportunity for animal rights organizations and activists opposing the bloodsport to argue for significant legal punishment.</p>
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
… critical roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) research, this dissertation traces how American partisans in the enduring vivisection …
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The Thin Green Line: Geographies of Ecoterrorism In the United States
… attacks perpetrated by radical environmental and animal rights groups. This dissertation documents the changing geographies, strategies, and methods of attack among radical environmental and animal rights groups in the United States. The specific questions asked are: (1) To what extent does …
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