| 期刊全稱 | Bearing Witness | | 期刊簡(jiǎn)稱 | Ruth Harrison and Br | | 影響因子2023 | Claas Kirchhelle | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/182/181929/181929.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | Shortlisted for the HSS Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science 2023 Prize.Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Explores the interconnected rise of | | 學(xué)科分類 | Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements | | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | | 影響因子 | 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 welfar | | Pindex | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2021 |
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