Sökning: "Animal rights studies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 uppsatser innehållade orden Animal rights studies.

1. 1. Sentient Objects — A Theoretical Analysis of the Potential of Animals as Legal Subjects

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Författare :Alice Edfast; [2023-04-26]
   Nyckelord :Jurisprudence; Legal theory; The legal subject; Legal personhood; The person-thing dichotomy; Animal Law theory; Animal sentience; Animal slaughter; Animal testing; Legal rights; Hohfeld’s fundamental legal conceptions; Speciesism; Humanism; Posthumanism; Greimas’ semiotic square;

   Sammanfattning : The sentience of animals has been scientifically proven since the nineteenth century, which has led to changes in our attitude towards animals and to the proliferation of anti-cruelty laws. But despite the rise of an Animal Law discipline, animal rights organisations’ attempting to elevate the legal status of animals, and several recent European legislative changes categorising animals as “non-things”, the legal status of a person has not yet been extended to animals. LÄS MER

3. 2. Identifying motivations and barriers to vegetarian diets--An exploratory study on young internationals in Sweden

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Författare :Ziyue Wang; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Sustainable food consumption; Vegetarian diet; Vegetarian motivation; Vegetarian barrier; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Our current food system is a significant contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, land and water use, biodiversity loss among other issues. In order to achieve the sustainability agendas, a shift in the food system is required. LÄS MER

4. 3. Freedom and Movement for Humans and Wild Animals : A journey along the German-Danish border fence

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Författare :Francis Rogers; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Animal migration; migrant rights; border fencing; habitat fragmentation; animal agency; German-Danish border;

   Sammanfattning : In December 2019, the Danish government finished building a fence on the border with Germany. Although the fence was nominally intended to prevent wild boar entering Denmark, the government had recently acquired enough barbed wire to reinforce it against human migrants. LÄS MER

5. 4. Pigeon Tales : An Exploration of Humanimal Entanglement in Urban Spaces

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Författare :Anna Hoekman; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Pigeons; humanimal relations; animal rights; posthumanism; companion species; historical ecology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is an exploration of the humanimal entanglements between humans and pigeons in the urban setting. It traces human-pigeon histories from pigeons’ domestication forward to the contemporary conceptions of pigeons as a pest animal. LÄS MER

7. 5. An Ecocritical Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates : Human- Nonhuman Interactions in the Fairy Tales

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Eva Aramian; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Ecocriticism; Victorian ecocriticism; Animal Studies; Oscar Wilde; Fairy tales; Human-nonhuman interaction; Transformation.;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract   This thesis investigates the interactions between human and nonhuman characters that express a particular concern regarding nature and the environment in Oscar Wilde's four fairy tales in A House of Pomegranates. The author utilizes a significant number of nonhuman characters to communicate with humans, which is a fairy-tale convention in which truth wins over falsehood, kindness is rewarded, and virtue triumphs over evil. LÄS MER