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Snared : ethics and nature in animal protection

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Date
01/2017
Author
Reed, Adam
Keywords
Ethics
Nature
Animal rights
Law-making
Campaigning
GN Anthropology
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Abstract
This paper will examine how animal protection investigators, lobbyists and campaigners in Scotland consider the relationship between nature and ethics. Specifically, it will look at the complex ways in which activists deploy the categories ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ in order to interpret realms of animal suffering and judge the actions of human and non-human agents in those fields. The paper is also concerned to chart the ways in which animal protection activists develop strategies for persuading various audiences of the rightness of their position; these include charity supporters and prospective donors, but also politicians and civil servants involved in the legislative process in the Scottish Parliament. More broadly, the paper engages with debates in the emergent fields of the anthropology of ethics and human-animal relations. It is interested in the relationship between ethics and appearance and in the distribution of agency in claims or judgments of ethical or unethical behaviour.
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Reed , A 2017 , ' Snared : ethics and nature in animal protection ' , Ethnos , vol. 82 , no. 1 , pp. 68-85 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2015.1028563
Publication
Ethnos
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2015.1028563
ISSN
0014-1844
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2015 Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnos on 10/04/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00141844.2015.1028563
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9637

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