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Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
John Sorenson
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Description for Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
Paperback. Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JFM; JHB; KJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it. Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal exploitation fund and produce propaganda to portray the compassionate goals and nonviolent practices of animal activists as ... Read more
Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it. Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal exploitation fund and produce propaganda to portray the compassionate goals and nonviolent practices of animal activists as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552668290
SKU
V9781552668290
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Ref
99-15
About John Sorenson
John Sorenson is a professor in the Sociology Department at Brock University.
Reviews for Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
"John Sorenson brilliantly exposes the primary discursive and legal strategies employed to manage social dissent, as well as the outright lies, deceptions, hypocrisies, and dirty tactics employed to protect the corporate and political interests of the animal and environmental exploitation industries. This book is a worthwhile addition to the literature on the war on terror, social movements, animal rights activism, ... Read more