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Kirchhelle, Claas

 
9783030627911: Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements)
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ISBN 10: 3030627918 ISBN 13: 9783030627911
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Sinopsis

This open access book is the biography of one of Britain's foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the  world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison's bestseller Animal Machines  triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term 'factory farming' alongside a 
new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison's avant-garde  upbringing, Quakerism, and how animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder, Kirchhelle reconstructs Harrison's 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison's own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a polarisation of animal
politics, a professionalisation of British activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison's belief in incremental reform allowed her to form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical  campaigners. Many of her 1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However, farm animal welfare's increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. This is the first book to cast light on the interlinked histories of British farm animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences.

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Acerca del autor

Claas Kirchhelle (DPhil, Oxon 2015) is a medical historian and Lecturer at University College Dublin, with a Wellcome Trust University Award. His award-winning research and public engagement (Back from the Dead - Demystifying Antibiotics 2016-2017; Typhoidland 2020-2022) explore the interconnected evolution of modern science, politics, and the environment. His previous publications include Pyrrhic Progress. The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production, which won the 2020 Turriano Prize.

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This open access book is the biography of one of Britain s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term factory farming alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison s avant-garde upbringing, Quakerism, and how animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder, Kirchhelle reconstructs Harrison s 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison s own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a polarisation of animal politics, a professionalisation of British activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison s belief in incremental reform allowed her to form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical campaigners. Many of her 1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However, farm animal welfare s increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. this is the first book to cast light on the interlinked and frequently uneasy histories of post-war British animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond limited existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences. 

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Editorial
Palgrave Macmillan
Año de publicación
2021
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ISBN 10 
3030627918
ISBN 13 
9783030627911
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1
Número de páginas
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