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Bearing Witness - Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Bearing Witness - Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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This open access book is the biography of one of Britain's foremost
animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science,
and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison's 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 Harrison's 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 Harrison's 46 years of campaigning and the rapid
transformation of welfare politics and science during this time.
Exacerbated by Harrison's own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a
polarisation of animalpolitics, a professionalisation of British
activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison's
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 welfare's 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 histories of British farm
animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope
allows it to go beyond 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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