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On some difficulties of putting in dialogue animal rights with anthropological debates: a historical view in three episodes
2018
In this paper, I try to identify the reasons why the dialogue between sociocultural anthropology and animal rights theories and movements continues to be difficult and scarce. At first sight this weakness of communication is surprising, if one looks at the amount of anthropological studies on human/animal relationships, in most cases pointing to how animals are considered in many cultures as non- human subjects or persons. For understanding the roots of this state of affairs, I compare the ways anthropologists and animal rights theorists and activists have engaged with the issue of the differences and commonalities between human beings and nonhuman animals. For this aim, I contrast the sear…
Arte e diritti degli animali: una coalizione di protesta eterogenea contro la promozione pubblica di Nitsch
2016
L’intervento analizza il caso di una petizione online e l’evoluzione della protesta, sui social network e nel territorio, all’interno di una composita coalizione sociale. Si tratta della petizione (Change.org 2015), contro la sponsorizzazione da parte del Comune di Palermo della mostra dell’esponente dell’azionismo Viennese Hermann Nitsch che secondo promotori e firmatari violerebbe con le sue performance la Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti degli Animali (Unesco 1978). La petizione che in breve tempo ha raccolto oltre 70.000 firme rappresenta un interessante esempio di mobilitazione online che travalica i confini nazionali, la protesta, infatti, era partita a Città del Messico un anno p…
Moving from an Online Petition to an Informal Network of Artist-Activists: Protest and Participation in Palermo
2016
This paper will concern with the new forms of political participation starting from the study of the case of the online petition against the public sponsorship by the local municipality (Comune di Palermo) of the exposition by Hermann Nitsch known as an exponent of Viennese Actionism. The online petition (posted on Change.org and spreading on the social networks) that in short time has almost collected more than 70.000 signatures can represent an interesting example of online mobilisation and above all a case of creation – as unexpected effect – of an a non-profit informal network of artists able to create new forms of solidarity, mutualism and resistance against the progressive colonizatio…