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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/14748851231220552
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Animal rights; animal activism; witnessing; vigils; protest
Animal activists use vigils and acts of witnessing as forms of political protest to communicate attitudes and principles non-violently. These actions rely on passive and non-confrontational methods, unlike other forms of protest. This article examines the ethical nature of vigils and witnessing in animal rights activism and argues that the love-based ethic behind witnessing is overly demanding and deferential towards wrongdoers. Instead, it proposes a narrower account of witnessing detached from controversial spiritual elements.
Animal activists sometimes engage in vigils and acts of witnessing as forms of political protest. For example, the Animal Save Movement, a global activist network, regards witnessing the suffering of non-human animals as a moral duty of veganism. The act of witnessing is intended to non-violently communicate both attitudes and principles. These forms of activism are unlike other forms of protest, relying for much of their force upon passive, non-confrontational actions. This article explores the ethical character of vigils and witnessing in order to evaluate their role in animal rights activism. It argues that the love-based ethic behind the Animal Save Movement's form of witnessing is overly demanding, overly expansive and overly deferential towards wrongdoers. In its place, this article offers a narrower account of witnessing, detached from controversial spiritual elements. Vigils and conscious acts of witnessing, it is claimed, are political acts aimed at fulfilling duties to seek justice for non-human animals.
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