When the Butcher Calls the Hunter Foul, and the Muddied Politics which Follow: Speciesism and the EU Opposition to the Wolf Hunt
Författare
Summary, in English
Rarely does the death of animals cause conflict between governments. However, the killing of some animals, such as seals, wolves, and other exotic wildlife, can cause heated conflict over whether the act of killing is itself justifiable.This paper provides an overview of a recent disagreement along these lines – between the EU and Sweden over the management of wolves. It juxtaposes the recent politicalization of the wolf hunt with an overview of two very different moral frameworks that humans use to conceive of the value of animals. This paper argues that these two moral frameworks share in employing a human-centrism which consequently restricts how the issue of justice can be introduced into policy discussions regarding the treatment of animals. However, the primary assertion made here is that while these two frameworks are constituted by anthropocentrism, they represent two different incarnations of anthropocentrism which as is illustrated by the debate surrounding the justifiability of the wolf hunt, provide very different points to which questions of justice are truncated or introduced. Therefore the assertion made in this paper is that the conflict between the EU and Sweden, over the justifiability of the wolf hunt stems from competing articulations of anthropocentrism.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
201-209
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Contemporary Justice Review
Volym
19
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Nyckelord
- speciesism
- EU
- Sweden
- wolf
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1028-2580