Overview
- Provides a brilliant and nuanced account of the world's first animal protection movement
- Summarizes comprehensively the institutional, legal and cultural changes in human-animal relations achieved by the first wave of the animal protection movement in Britain
- Reveals a more diverse, radical and complex movement than previously imagined
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)
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This book explores the British animal defense movement’s mobilization of the cultural and intellectual traditions of its time- from Christianity and literature, to natural history, evolutionism and political radicalism- in its struggle for the cause of animals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Each chapter examines the process whereby the animal protection movement interpreted and drew upon varied intellectual, moral and cultural resources in order to achieve its manifold objectives, participate in the ongoing re-creation of the current traditions of thought, and re-shape human-animal relations in wider society. Placing at its center of analysis the movement’s mediating power in relation to its surrounding traditions, Li’s original perspective uncovers the oft-ignored cultural work of the movement whilst restoring its agency in explaining social change. Looking forward, it points at the same time to the potential of all traditions, through ongoing mobilization, to effect change in the human-animal relations of the future.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Chien-hui Li is Associate Professor at the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement
Authors: Chien-hui Li
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52651-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52650-2Published: 25 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52651-9Published: 11 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6672
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 355
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, History of Britain and Ireland, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy