Bearing witness : Ruth Harrison and British farm animal welfare (1920-2000) / Claas Kirchhelle.
Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987- author.
2021
HV4716.H37
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Bearing witness : Ruth Harrison and British farm animal welfare (1920-2000) / Claas Kirchhelle.
Author
Kirchhelle, Claas, 1987- author.
ISBN
9783030627928 (electronic bk.)
3030627926 (electronic bk.)
3030627918
9783030627911
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62792-8
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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10.1007/978-3-030-62792-8 doi
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HV4716.H37
Dewey Decimal Classification
179.3092
Summary
This open access book is the biography of one of Britains foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrisons 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 Harrisons 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 Harrisons 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrisons 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. Harrisons 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 welfares increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. this is the first book to cast light on the interlinked and frequently uneasy histories of post-war British animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond limited existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in the history of social movements.
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1. Introduction
Part One: Radical Roots (19201961)
2. Meet the Winstens: A 'Downstart' Anglo-Jewish family
3. Becoming an Activist: Ruth Harrison's Turn to Animal Welfare
Part Two: Synthesis
The Post-war Landscape of Welfare Science and Activism (1945-1964)
4: Between Physiology and Psychology: Ethology and Animal Feelings
5. Ideals and Intensification: Welfare Campaigns in a Nation of Animal Lovers
6. Staging Welfare: Writing Animal Machines
Part Three: Impact (1964-68)
7. From Author to Adviser: Ruth Harrison and the Animal Machines Moment
Part Four: Defining Welfare (1967-1979)
8. A 'Minority of One': Harrison and the FAWAC
9. Ruth the Ruthless: Activism, Welfare, and Generational Change
10. Slippery FACTs: The Rise of a "Mandated" Animal Welfare Science
Part Five: From Eclat to Consensus (1979-2000)
11. From Protest to 'Holy Writ': The Mainstreaming of Welfare Politics
12. Non-conform Evidence:The Impasse of 1990s Welfare Research
13. Conclusion.

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