Animal Rights and the Problem of r-Strategists
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9774-x
Abstract: Wild animal reproduction poses an important moral problem for animal rights theorists. Many wild animals give birth to large numbers of uncared-for offspring, and thus child mortality rates are far higher in nature than they… read more here.
Keywords: problem strategists; problem; wild animals; rights problem ... See more keywords
Book Review: Animal Rights Activism: A Moral–Sociological Perspective on Social Movements
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DOI: 10.1177/0001699318759264
Abstract: In recent social movement studies a symbolic framework emphasizing rituals, symbols and master frames has contributed with important insights into the diverse communicative and socio-cultural aspects of contemporary social movements (Alexander, 2006; Benford and Snow,… read more here.
Keywords: rights activism; activism moral; moral sociological; social movements ... See more keywords
Thinking-of-the-Animal-Other with Emmanuel Levinas
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DOI: 10.17159/1727-3781/2020/v23i0a8974
Abstract: This article situates the texts in which Emmanuel Levinas directly addresses questions of animality against the backdrop of his larger oeuvre and argues that, despite an explicit attempt to arrange a privileged ethical (dis)position for… read more here.
Keywords: animal emmanuel; emmanuel; emmanuel levinas; thinking animal ... See more keywords
A Prognostic View on the Ideological Determinants of Violence in the Radical Ecological Movement
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DOI: 10.3390/su12166536
Abstract: Ecologically motivated violence that manifests itself in the animal-rights and environmental forms is not a declining phenomenon. The fluctuating increase of the number of ecologically motivated crimes during the last 50 years, the multiplicity of… read more here.
Keywords: violence; ideological determinants; view ideological; determinants violence ... See more keywords
The summer of Harambe: The curious case of a deceased gorilla and an animal rights campaign turned online prank
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DOI: 10.5210/fm.v26i3.9449
Abstract: In May 2016, a child climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. The events that followed — namely the killing of a 17-year-old silverback gorilla named Harambe in order to protect… read more here.
Keywords: gorilla; harambe; summer harambe; animal rights ... See more keywords