1st Edition

Animal Rights Activism A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements

By Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim's sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral... Read more
List of Figures, Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements Chapter 2. Moral Reflexivity Chapter 3. Emotion Work Chapter 4. Secular Religion Chapter 5. Deviance-Management Chapter 6. Summation

Biography

Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Her most recent books are Social Movements in Post-communist Europe and Russia (Routledge 2014) and Beyond NGO-ization. The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Ashgate 2013, both co-edited with Steven Saxonberg).
Jonas Lindblom is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mälardalen University. Recent publications include articles in Deviant Behavior, Acta Sociologica and Social Movements Studies.