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Animal Liberation Front : A Political and Philosophical Analysis / by Steven Best, Anthony Nocella.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Best, Steven.
- Series:
- Animal Liberation Front
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126 pages)
- Other Title:
- Animal Liberation Front
- The Animal Liberation Front
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lantern Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The actions of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) constitute one of the most misunderstood components of the animal advocacy movement in the U.K. and U.S. Not so much an organization as an ever-changing cluster of individuals who free animals from laboratories, farms, and other animal-confinement facilities, the ALF has been by turns romanticized and vilified, hounded and lionized. In this detailed introduction to the ALF, which constitutes the opening chapter of their edited volume, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?, academics Steve Best and Anthony Nocella place the ALF in the context of other liberation and social justice movements and examine its stated commitment to nonviolence and the forces arrayed against it. The result is a potent, polemical, and passionately engaged study of activism in an age of terror laws and fearmongering.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introducing the Animal Liberation Front: Reprinted from the ALF Primer
- Animal Liberation Front Guidelines: Reprinted from the ALF Primer
- Behind the Mask: Uncovering the Animal Liberation Front
- The ALF: The Newest Liberation Movement
- I. Direct Action and Democracy
- II. Origins of the ALF
- III. Migration to the US
- IV. Philosophy and Structure of the ALF
- Semantic Quagmires: Defining "Violence" and "Terrorism"
- Dilemmas and the Politics of Language
- V. The "Principled" Critique of the ALF
- Exploiters on the Run
- VI. The "Pragmatic" Critique of the ALF
- VII. Rifts in the Movement
- VIII. Against Hypocrisy
- IX. About Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
- X. Into the Future
- Notes
- Contact Resources
- About the Authors
- Related Titles of Interest.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-59056-271-2
- OCLC:
- 763156440
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