Abstract
In this chapter, Tony Milligan notes how the open rescue of nonhuman animals, as practised in Australia by Animal Liberation Victoria and Animal Liberation New South Wales, and by members of a variety of activist networks in Europe and North America, has been compared (by such activists) to Gandhian satyagraha. The latter, Milligan clarifies, may be understood, loosely, as a struggle that is based upon the power of truth and/or spirituality and non-violence. Milligan then argues for the relevance of such comparisons, clarifying along the way that this is not a case for some manner of descriptive monism. Animal advocates, Milligan contends, need a rich conceptual repertoire and multiple (sometimes more secular, sometimes more spiritualized) ways of describing one and the same set of events.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues |
| Editors | Andrew Woodhall, Gabriel Garmendia di Trindade |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319545493 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319545486 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Satyagraha
- Gandhi
- Non-violence
- Animals
- Ethics
- Protest