2020

El Congreso se desarrollo los dias 14 y 15 de noviembre en la ciudad de Cordoba, Argentina, con diversas modalidades de participacion que incluyeron la presentacion de ponencias plenarias, grupos de investigacion y experiencias de grupos activistas y de artistas. En esta oportunidad, la organizacion estuvo a cargo del grupo de investigacion Veg(etari)anismos y Estudios Criticos Animales (CIECS, CONICET y UNC), el Curso de Etica Animal (Facultad de Derecho, UBA), la Unidad de Promocion a la Investigacion y Desarrollo-UPID Estudios Criticos Animales y Transdisciplinariedad (FPyCS, UNLP), el Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Criticos Animales (ILECA) y la red de investigacion Animal Critico. El evento estuvo dirigido a investigadores, profesionales, docentes de educacion superior y universitaria, activistas, artistas, funcionarios y tecnicos de entidades gubernamentales y de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, periodistas, asi como a estudiantes que trabajan en sus carreras temati...

Language & Ecology, 2015

2020

This document aims to answer the questions: What are the cultural paradigms or fundamental drivers that support meat-eating in Argentinian culture? How is plant-based food and veganism perceived in Argentina? How can the paradigms be changed to promote a transition to a mainly plant-based diet? And finally, What are the most effective interventions to change the behavior of individuals toward the consumption of animal products? I have divided the work into five parts. First, I give a brief introduction to the four key elements of social representations of meat consumption in Argentina. In other words, how can we describe the common sense knowledge of the majority of people (learned in the family but sustained by various institutions) that supports the consumption of meat. These elements are: 1) a belief system that supports meat consumption, 2) a profound stigmatization of veganism, 3) macro-narratives about meat and dairy products, and 4) a particular way of thinking and activism within the vegan community. Part 1, the introduction, gives a brief sketch of what social representations are. Parts 2 to 5 (the 4 key elements) explain each of the elements and I give practical suggestions to overcome the problems described. *Graduate and Professor in Social Communication. Doctor in Communication from the National University of La Plata. She developed her doctoral thesis from a perspective of food and culture, entitled "Representations and identities of the specist discourse: the case of beef and its derivatives in Argentina (2000-2012)", unique and first of its kind in the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of the UNLP. Representative in Latin America of ICAS (Institute for Critical Animal Studies) as director of ILECA (Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Críticos Animales). Together with a colleague, she directs the Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales (http://www.revistaleca.org), the only one of its kind in Latin America, indexed and with a non-specist perspective. Editor and co-founder of Editorial Latinoamericana Especializada en Estudios Críticos Animales. She coordinates the UPID (Unidad de Promoción a la Investigación y el Desarrollo) "Estudios Críticos Animales y transdisciplinariedad"; (Critical Animal Studies and Transdisciplinarity) in the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of the UNLP, where researchers from all over Latin America participate. .01

2016

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Cultural Anthropology, 2023

Abstract Activism in favor of non-human animals is on the rise throughout Mexico despite ongoing and episodic violence. Activists, also known as animalistas, represent themselves as the “voice” of non-human animals as they seek rights and well-being for animals. In Ciudad Juárez, a border city once considered the most dangerous city in the world (2008–2012), animalistas engage in complex ways with non-human bodies as they seek to “speak” for them. This article analyzes the relationship between injured bodies and voice in Ciudad Juárez’s animalista movement, with the act of the rescue as the point of inception. Injured animal bodies prove central for activists because anthropogenic violence transforms dogs’ bodies. Non-human injured bodies, and their visual representations, allow animalistas to position themselves as the voice of an animal that survived an abuse while also individualizing and depolitizicing—through the discourse of pathology—violence against dogs. RESUMEN A pesar de la violencia continua y esporádica en México, el activismo a favor de los animales no humanos ha incrementado. En la búsqueda de derechos y el bienestar de animales no-humanos, las personas activistas, o animalistas, se presentan a sí mismas como la “voz” de los animales. En la ciudad fronteriza de Ciudad Juárez, que alguna vez fue consideraba la más violenta del mundo (2008–2012), las animalistas se relacionan de manera compleja con los cuerpos no-humanos para poder “hablar” por ellos. Este artículo analiza la relación entre cuerpos lesionados y voz en el movimiento animalista de Ciudad Juárez, enfatizando el acto del rescate como un momento clave. Los cuerpos lesionados de perros son fundamentales para las activistas porque la violencia antropogénica los transforma. Así los cuerpos animales lesionados, y sus representaciones visuales, les permiten posicionarse como la voz de animales sobrevivientes al abuso, mientras que individualiza y despolitiza—a través de un discurso patologizante—la violencia contra perros.

European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2018

The concept of "right" differs from country to country in terms of its limitations; however, there are several rights which have the characteristics of immunity all over the world. When assessed in this context, there are fundamental rights of which violation are considered to be crimes against humanity such as the right to life and the right not to be tortured. Nevertheless, it is seen that universal principles in crime have not become valid since the victim of violations in question are the animal but not the people. Considering this reality, approaches proposed to animals which form one of the weakest rings of life and their rights need to be examined within the context of the birth and development of the animal rights movement. But, it is still known that some countries and sectors should cover a lot of ground in protection of animal rights, although a tough struggle has been given in the historical process. In the matter of improving this though processes by which animal have had unrecoverable damage, policymakers and individuals have great responsibility. This article, which details the major areas in which animal rights have been violated, was written in order to raise awareness of the animal's living conditions, its impact on ecology and the sanctity of its right to life.

LERCIER M., S. Wise’s 'Sacudiendo la jaula' Book Release: a wider audience promising for more legal actions on behalf of animals?, dA web center, 2018

On April 19th, 2018, Steven Wise, American lawyer and emblematic founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, presented the Spanish edition of his book written in 2000, « Rattling the cage: Toward legal rights for animals », at the occasion of its release in Spain under the title « Sacudiendo la jaula: Hacia los Derechos de los animales » in April of this year. The event was organized at the Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Melcior Colet of Barcelona, in partnership with the Private Foundation CyO, the NGO Esport Solidari Internacional, the publisher Tirant lo Blanch, the Master of Animal Law and Society of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the ICALP. The translation of this classic in the animal rights field and international movement for the recognition of legal personhood and fundamental rights for animals will provide the Spanish-speaking public with the opportunity, more than 30 years after Steven Wise pioneered the fight for their legal rights, to understand the arguments that abound in favor of upgrading the legal status of animals and the mechanisms and legal techniques that are used to reach this goal before US courts.

Análisis Jurídico - Político

Professor Rosa María de la Torre Torres, in her work The Foundations of Animal Rights, carried out important research work on animal rights, which are part of emerging rights. In this same sense, it proposes an interesting articulation of philosophical and legal approaches that give rise to the rethinking of human relations with non-human animals and the inclusion of these in the expansion of the legal community.

2002

In this chapter, Anita Guerrini, a science historian, criticizes the way in which the ethical debate over the use of animals in research has been car• ried out. She notes that the debate has been hindered from its inception by a strate!D'whereby the advocates of the various positions attempt to discredit the opposition in ways that deflect attention from the central grounding of their arguments. She categorizes these rhetorical approaches as fUndamentally a search

This symposium explores the intersection between feminist studies and animal studies in research and activism. What can contemporary feminism offer to the animals whose lives are deemed to be outside of legal protections and ethical concerns? How might considering the perspective of nonhuman animals advance the aims and practices of feminism?