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Elementary Forms of Religious Life in Animal Rights Activism
Many scholars have noted that secular belief systems, despite lack of a spiritual base, can possess qualities and display features similar to religion.
Kerstin Jacobsson
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Historical spatio-temporal data on North American radical environmental direct-action eventsDataverse [PDF]
Social and political event data are widely used in scientific research. However, event data concerning the direct actions of radical environmental groups is comparatively scarce, due in large part to inconsistent news coverage and the clandestine nature ...
Zack W. Almquist +2 more
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Ceallaigh S. Maccath-Moran is a PhD candidate in the Folklore Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a writer, a poet and a musician. Ceallaigh’s research interests include animal rights activism as a public performance of ethical belief ...
Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran, Aldona Kobus
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Intangible cultural heritage increasingly becomes a conflict/mediation field among different issues and global/local hierarchies of value. Here the author outlines the first results of an ethnography in South-Central Italy about a group of ceremonials ...
Letizia Bindi
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Almost Like Waging War. Tom Regan and the Conditions for Using Violence for the Sake of Animals
This paper investigates Tom Regan’s attitude towards violence as a litmus test to understand the justifiability of the use of violence in animal rights activists (ARAs).
Federico Zuolo
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Emotions and social movements: The case of the animal rights and welfare movement in Serbia [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to explore the reasons behind the differences between the organizations dealing with the animal protection and the other environmental organizations.
Vukelić Jelisaveta
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The Italian Animal Advocacy Archipelago and the Four Animalisms
Italian animal advocacy is extremely divided and fragmented: in this article, we focus on its political dimension. Based upon prior studies, we expected the Italian animal advocacy archipelago to be clustered into three strata: old welfare, new welfare ...
Niccolò Bertuzzi
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The article shows the results of a study aimed at finding the determinants, which describe the petitioning activity of the residents of the western and eastern parts of Germany.
Nadezhda K. Radina, Daria S. Belyashova
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In New Zealand one of the most significant animal rights issues is the systemic cruelty inherent in the dairy industry. This article presents a review of video activism as a strategy by activists in New Zealand to educate the public about the brutal and ...
Lynley Tulloch, Paul Judge
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The ‘humanised zoo’: decolonizing conservation education through a new narrative
Wildlife conservation seems unaffected by decolonization movements that recently led to removing or vandalizing several statues of geographers and colonizers worldwide. Instead, we observe an increased emphasis on total protection of species and habitats
S Gippoliti, C Battisti
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