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The Media's Response to Animal Rights Activism
Anthrozoös, 1997Two recently published projects documented a peak in print coverage of animal-related topics in the late 1980s with a subsequent decline in coverage. One of the studies specifically tracked media coverage of activism on behalf of animals and documented a similar trend in the number of stories on the subject.
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Every Sparrow That Falls: Understanding Animal Rights Activism as Functional Religion
Society & Animals, 2000AbstractThis article reports original research conducted among animal rights activists and elites in Switzerland and the United States, and the finding that activism functioned in activists' and elites' lives like religious belief. The study used reference sampling to select Swiss and American informants.
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Learning to Be Affected: Subjectivity, Sense, and Sensibility in Animal Rights Activism
Society & Animals, 2014Abstract Becoming an animal rights activist is not just a process of identity change and re-socialization but also implies, as this article suggests, a “re-engineering” of affective cognitive repertoires and processes of “sensibilization” in relation to nonhuman animals.
Niklas Hansson, Kerstin Jacobsson
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A Deviance Perspective on Social Movements: The Case of Animal Rights Activism
Deviant Behavior, 2013This article outlines a theoretical framework for understanding deviance and deviance-management in a social movement context. Such a deviance perspective is useful because in striving for social change, activists challenge existing social norms and may readily be defined by their environments as “outsiders” or deviants.
Jonas Lindblom, Kerstin Jacobsson
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Risk & Reward: The Impact of Animal Rights Activism on Women
Society & Animals, 2008AbstractThis qualitative study of 27 women animal activists examines the risks and rewards that accompany a commitment to animal rights activism. One of the common beliefs about animal rights activists is that their political choices are fanatic and unyielding, resulting in rigid self-denial. Contrary to this notion, the women in this study experienced
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“The Movement Is My Life”: The Psychology of Animal Rights Activism
Journal of Social Issues, 1993I used a qualitative research approach to investigate psychological aspects of involvement in the animal rights movement. Interviews were conducted with 23 rank‐and‐file activists, focusing on cognitive and emotional aspects of involvement with the movement, concomitant lifestyle changes, effects on interpersonal relations, and the happiness and well ...
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Strategies, Action Repertoires and DIY Activism in the Animal Rights Movement
Social Movement Studies, 2005Following Tilly, this paper argues that a social movement is what it does as much as why it does it. This approach is particularly important in the case of the animal rights movement, which is often demonized as extremist and violent. Critics of the movement claim that animal activists use letter bombs, arson attacks and threats to intimidate those ...
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Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States
Anthrozoös, 2018(2018). Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States. Anthrozoos: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 517-518.
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Where the Boys Aren't: The Predominance of Women in Animal Rights Activism
Feminist Formations, 2011A striking characteristic of the animal rights movement is that women constitute the majority of its activists. This qualitative study of twenty-seven women animal rights activists analyzes how they make sense of their centrality in the movement. The article discusses how cultural discourses regarding sex and gender shape the way women activists ...
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The learning of emotion in/as sociocultural practice: The case of animal rights activism
Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2020Background: Learning sciences researchers, including those in the sociocultural tradition, often address emotion on motivation’s terms, as a condition or quality of being that propels or mediates l...
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