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Bullfighting: The Legal Protection of Suffering

2018

Bullfighting has been recently accepted as Cultural Heritage by the Spanish Government. There is a current initiative to declare bullfighting as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and include it in the UNESCO list. The proponents of such initiatives contend that bullfighting should be protected and promoted on the grounds that it is an artistic activity, part of the national culture. In this chapter, I discuss the moral arguments and legal aspects that can be pitted against such a cruel practice. More specifically, I will examine the serious obstacles to the legal protection of such practices, which cause suffering and aim at killing nonhuman animals based on cultural or artistic reasons.

Cultural heritageGovernmentLegal protectionIntangible cultural heritageBullfightingPolitical scienceNational cultureEnvironmental ethics
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Anverso y reverso de la nación: el discurso de la antiespañolada durante los primeros años 40

2015

During the immediate postwar years, different voices from the new francoist regime produced a discourse relatively spontaneous but, at the same time, recognizable enough addressed to denounce what they considered as an unacceptable deformation of the Spanishness. Basically, and in spite of the ideological differences amongst its producers, the critic raised from a common and painful nationalism which pointed at the foreign look —specially, the French romantic look— as creator and supporter of what they called España de pandereta. This look supposed a distortion and mystification of Spain as a picturesque nation that resulted in the españolada. The aim of this article is to explore this disc…

Historyespañolada; early Francoism; bullfighting; flamenco; francoist nationalism; problem of Spainmedia_common.quotation_subjectSocial Sciencesnacionalismo franquistaproblema de españaHSpite (sentiment)Bullfightingprimer franquismotorosNacióespañolada; primer franquismo; toros; flamenco; nacionalismo franquista; problema de EspañaSociologymedia_commonLiteratureHierarchybusiness.industrySupporterRomanceflamencoNationalismFranquismeespañoladaIdeologybusinessHumanitiesHispania
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Preliminary study on the existence of ocular injuries after bullfighting or fire bull

2019

The vision of the bull is the cornerstone of the celebration in which it is the protagonist, both when it is fought and when it is “embolado” in popular festivities. An alteration of the vision could suppose an excessive danger for the animal and for the one that faces him. The bullfight and the “toro embolado” are traditions that present controversy between certain groups of people, for that reason, the present study aims to determine if there are ocular injuries in the bulls after both activities. For this work we use a total of 50 eyes, 40 from 20 fighting bull and 10 from 5 “toros embolados”. After the macroscopic and microscopic study carried out with fluorescein tests, ultrasounds, di…

medicine.medical_specialtygenetic structuresbusiness.industryAnterior synechiaeCorneal opacityeye diseasesmedicine.anatomical_structureBullfightingCorneaOphthalmologymedicinesense organsIris (anatomy)businessProceedings of MOL2NET 2019, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Sciences, 5th edition
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