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Animal rights
About: Animal rights is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1797 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32641 citations.
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01 Jan 1983TL;DR: The animal rights movement is committed to a number of goals, including the total abolition of the use of animals in science; the total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture; and the total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: I regard myself as an advocate of animal rights—as part of the animal rights movement. That movement, as I conceive it, is committed to a number of goals, including:
the total abolition of the use of animals in science;
the total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture;
the total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping.
2,028 citations
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The Animal That Therefore I Am as discussed by the authors is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work.
Abstract: The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction--dating from Descartes--between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses tothe question in the work of each of them.The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or betises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.
1,324 citations
TL;DR: There are, I know, people who profess to believe in animal rights but do not avow these goals as discussed by the authors, who say that factory farming, they say, is wrong, it violates animals' rights, but traditional animal agriculture is all right.
Abstract: There are, I know, people who profess to believe in animal rights but do not avow these goals. Factory farming, they say, is wrong—it violates animals’ rights—but traditional animal agriculture is all right. Toxicity tests of cosmetics on animals violates their rights, but important medical research—cancer research, for example—does not. The clubbing of baby seals is abhorrent, but not the harvesting of adult seals. I used to think I understood this reasoning. Not any more. You don’t change unjust institutions by tidying them up.
1,113 citations
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24 Nov 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, an expansion of the theory of animal rights via Citizenship Theory is presented. But it does not address the question of whether animals have the same basic rights as humans.
Abstract: 1. Introduction PART I: AN EXPANDED THEORY OF ANIMAL RIGHTS 2. Universal Basic Rights for Animals 3. Expanding ART via Citizenship Theory PART II: APPLICATIONS 4. Domesticated Animals within ART 5. Domesticated Animal Citizens 6. Wild Animal Sovereignty 7. Liminal Animal Denizens 8. Conclusion
549 citations
TL;DR: In the absence of social networks, moral shocks may be necessary for recruiting strangers, and the most effective ones are conveyed by powerful condensing symbols as discussed by the authors, which are sometimes transmitted across these networks, but at other times are broadcast to strangers.
Abstract: Recent work on social movement recruitment emphasizes the importance of pre-existing social networks and underestimates that of cognitive cultural messages, which are sometimes transmitted across these networks, but at other times are broadcast to strangers. In the absence of networks, moral shocks may be necessary for recruiting strangers, and the most effective ones are conveyed by powerful condensing symbols. Even those researchers who have examined the “frames” necessary for recruitment have been unduly influenced by the social-network exemplar, overlooking broader cultural “themes” in society at large. Through surveys of animal rights and anti-nuclear protestors, we distinguish two mechanisms of recruitment to protest, one based primarily on appeals to new recruits, the other on activating existing networks. Fewer animal rights protestors rated family, friends, and previous activism in other causes as reasons for their animal rights participation; they were often recruited directly by moral shocks in the form of visual and verbal rhetoric.
547 citations