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The Ideological Fantasy of Animal Welfare
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Svärd, Per-Anders |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | This chapter investigates how animal welfarism works not only on the discursive level, but also how it 'binds' people by way of affective investment in a specific worldview. The objective is to account, at least in part, for the remarkable stability and attractiveness of animal welfare discourse as a hegemonic view of the human-animal relationship. In Lacanian terms, animal welfarism offers the lacking subject a secure identity in being 'animal friendly', thus relieving it of guilt over complicity in animal exploitation. In the context of animal welfare discourse, the enemy often takes the form of a deviant or racialized animal abuser, or, more abstractly, figures as the threat of impersonal technological or economic development. A critical theory of speciesism take note of the animal abuser as a symptom, as a fantasmatic positivization of the social antagonism, a condensation point for the immanent negativity which has to be repressed for the discourse of animal welfare. Book Name: Eco-global Crimes |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315578651-7&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 132 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 115 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315578651-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-04-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Eco-global Crimes History and Philosophy of Science Animal Welfare Discourse Animal Abuser Animal Friendly |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
