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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…
“Sealfie”, “Phoque you” and “Animism”: The Canadian Inuit Answer to the United-States Anti-sealing Activism
2018
A corpus made by online Canadian newspaper articles, coming from the archives of CBC News, Vice Canada and Huffington Post Canada, and related multimedia contents such us audio interviews, videos and especially links to images and comments shared on Twitter, allows us to reconstruct the debate on the seal hunt that involved Canadian media in 2014. In specific, we propose an interpretation of the pro-sealing discourse by Canadian Inuit and Newfoundlanders as an ironic and incisive answer to the serious United States animal rights activists discourse, explaining how these two different points of view on animals come from a different experience of the environment and a different conception of …
Breaking the Traditional Style of Finnish Civic Activity
2010
In this article, “the basic idea is to introduce the idea of style as an approach to (political) activity and, especially, as an alternative practice to ideological activity.” Using the example of animal-rights activism, the author posits something “decidedly new” in Finnish civic activity, which traditionally has been channelled through institutions: Finnish movements have been state-oriented, with demands being addressed to the government, and have emphasized knowledge-based rationality as the measure for competent activity. The author categorically rejects “the notion that, in politics, style is anything more than a superficial curtain, behind which the true contents of politicking can …
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…
Eläinten puolustajat : suomalaisen eläinoikeusaktivismin muuttuva poliittinen tyyli ja toiseus
2016
This study examines animal rights activism in Finland. Since 1995, when the first public acts of animal liberation in Finland took place, animal rights activists have made up one of the most debated Finnish social movements. In this research, I study animal rights activism as a phenomenon and as a form of political action. The study approaches the issue by applying the concepts of political style and cultural othering as analytical tools. The study is empirical and bases its analysis on qualitative methodology, especially content analysis. I interviewed activists in 2000-2002 and again in 2015. I have also done observation at demonstrations as well as some campaign analysis. In the five art…