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Legislate or liberate? A study of anarchist and parliamentary left approaches to animal advocacy in Britain
posted on 10.08.2016, 14:05 by Will J. Boisseau
This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by exploring parliamentary left and anarchistic approaches to animal advocacy using a Critical Animal Studies (CAS) framework. This is significant because CAS is a field of scholarship which developed in order to theoretically support animal activists; nonetheless, in its focus on direct action and its rejection of reformist politics, CAS has too often ignored the legislative developments which are extremely important to most animal activists. Therefore, this thesis makes an overarching claim that CAS scholarship should treat the relationship between direct action and legislative reform more seriously. This thesis considers the relationship between direct action activists and legislative politics and as such makes a useful contribution to both CAS and wider animal rights scholarship. More broadly, the thesis provides a particularly useful assessment of one social movement at a time of rapidly changing moral, political and activist landscapes as Britain enters a new 'age of dissent'. [Continues.]
Politics and International Studies
© Will Boisseau
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.
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International Relations, Politics and History Theses
Political Science not elsewhere classified
Critical animal studiesAnimal advocacyAnarchismParliamentary leftTotal liberationSpeciesism