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| author |
Rebecca Schuman
| | title |
The Case for Linking Causes:
Why Animal Rights Are an Environmental Issue
| | abstract |
While animal rights is rapidly expanding into the mainstream as a prominent social
justice movement, there are still facets of the movement which keep animal liberation separate
from most other causes, specifically environmentalism. A long history of these two movements
recognizes their shared pasts and deliberate stance against all forms of oppression, human,
animal, and environment alike. However, tension between the individual virtue of an animal in
conjunction with the human condition, or the broad-stroke health of an ecosystem, has created a
disparity in activist circles. There are also major divisions in the realm of academia, or
environmental philosophy, which has only further severed ties between the movements. Overall,
intersectionality between animal rights and environmentalism, along with a willingness to bring
animal rights into the conversation of other social justice movements will only further a unified
monoculture against all forms of oppression.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2021)
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| advisor |
Summer Harrison
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| committee |
Lisa Jordan
Marc Boglioli
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| full text | RSchuman.pdf |
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