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The Limits of Species Advocacy

In English

Författare

  • Kurtis Boyer

Redaktör

  • M.L.J. Wissenburg
  • David Schlosberg

Summary, in English

Boyer offers an innovative analysis of the relationship between species protection and the different ways we are able to become emotionally responsive and morally committed to animals in politics. Using the politicalization of polar bear advocacy as an illustration, this chapter draws attention to how species advocacy comes to be transposed onto politics through habitat protection or other intermediary political goals not exclusive to species protection. The chapter reveals species advocacy as existing through single, sometimes competing incarnations of advocacy. By referring to literature that discusses anthropocentrism, altruism, and the representation of animals, Boyer is able to uncover the psycho-social conditions that underlie and guide much of todays popularized species advocacy -- ultimately leading us to ask the troubling question of whether it is our attachment towards species and the manner in which it becomes articulated in politics, which poses the greatest threat to species protection.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

123-134

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Political Animals and Animal Politics

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • wildlife
  • conservation
  • wwf
  • critical animal studies
  • anthropocentrism
  • speciesism
  • polar bear

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781137434616