An office of ethics : meetings, roles and moral enthusiasm in animal protection
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between meetings and organisational ethics in an animal protection charity in Scotland. Here, recent ‘professionalisation’ has seen the late introduction of an ethics of office and accompanying impersonalization of roles. A consequent struggle emerges over what the relationship should be between the core message of the organisation, as an office of animal ethics, and the ‘personal’ principles or ethical commitment of individual staff members. All of this comes to a head when persons, and office-holders, meet.
Citation
Reed , A 2017 , ' An office of ethics : meetings, roles and moral enthusiasm in animal protection ' , Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , vol. 23 , no. S1 , pp. 166–181 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12601
Publication
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1359-0987Type
Journal article
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© Royal Anthropological Institute 2017. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12601
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