1st Edition

Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement

By Danita Catherine Burke Copyright 2023
74 Pages
by Routledge

74 Pages
by Routledge

74 Pages
by Routledge

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices and community structures. It takes readers back to ground zero of the anti-sealing movement – Newfoundland and Labrador. This book sheds light on the human costs of activists and the... Read more

Introduction 1. Stigmatization as a Tool of Cultural Violence 2. An Overview – Sealing and the Anti-Sealing Movement in the Canadian North Atlantic and Arctic 3. Contextualizing the Newfoundland and Labrador Experiences of Anti-Sealing Violence 4. The Newfoundland and Labrador Anti-Sealing Movement Experience

Biography

Danita Catherine Burke is a research fellow at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. She has a PhD from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK, and graduate degrees in Political Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dr. Burke’s research has been supported by funding bodies such as the Rothermere Foundations Trust, Carlsberg Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, the J.R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.