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Animals, Equality and Democracy
S. O'Sullivan
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paperback. "Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favor those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency"-- Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHB; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency.
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Series
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Number of Pages
213
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349318636
SKU
V9781349318636
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99-15
About S. O'Sullivan
SIOBHAN O'SULLIVAN is Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia. She has a long-standing interest in animal protection and published widely on animal issues, including articles in Environmental Politics, Environmental Values and the Journal of Animal Ethics. Siobhan is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Reviews for Animals, Equality and Democracy
'In Animals, Equality, and Democracy, Siobhan O'Sullivan appeals to democratic values to argue that the way we treat many animals is unjustifiable, even when judged by the standards that citizens of most democracies already accept. This is an engagingly fresh approach to the issue of animal equality, and I hope it will be widely discussed.' - Peter Singer, Princeton University, ... Read more