Lyle Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 208201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyle Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8443-1614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Animal rights and anti-speciesism
A key argument in the chapter concerns the importance of the animal protection movement (APM) to debates on how to reduce greenhouse emissions and climate change by a reduction in or elimination of meat in our diets. I describe this process in the context of the intensification of animal agriculture and its negative impacts on the climate, the environment, and human and non-human animals. I argue the case for a common cause mass movement of anima…
Life Chances, Education and Social Movements
‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ explains the sociology of life chances, the opportunities and experiences of different generations in Australia, the United States and the UK, and how the differential distribution of life-enhancing opportunities affects our well-being. It is now four decades since the publication of Ralf Dahrendorf's ‘Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory’ (1979), a surprisingly neglected work that…
Zoo Ethics: The Challenges of Compassionate Conservation, by Jenny Gray
Jenny Gray, the author of Zoo Ethics, is the Director of Zoos Victoria, the organisation that manages Melbourne Zoo in Parkville, the Healesville Sanctuary and Werribee Open Range Zoo. Her book, wh
Ages and Stages: The place of theatre in the lives of older people
Despite the growing interest amongst gerontologists and literary and cultural scholars alike, in arts participation, ageing and the artistic outputs of older people, comparatively little attention has yet been paid to theatre and drama. Likewise, community or participatory theatre has long been used to address issues affecting marginalised or excluded groups, but it is a presently under-utilised medium for exploring ageing or for conveying positi…
The Live Animal Export Controversy in Australia: A Moral Crusade Made for the Mass Media
This article analyses a recent media campaign by Animals Australia and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission which exposed the cruelties of the live animal export trade in Australia. The television story ‘A Bloody Business’ aired by the country's leading investigative programme Four Corners caused an immediate and unprecedented expression of anger by thousands of view…
Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674
Ranging from the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton to those of Robert Southwell and Anna Trapnel, this groundbreaking study explores the conscious use of archaic style by the poets and dramatists between 1590 and 1674. It focuses on the wide-ranging, complex and self-conscious uses of archaic linguistic and poetic style, analysing the uses to which writers put literary style in order to re-embody and reshape the past. Munro brings …
The Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice: A Review of the Sociological Literature
Traditionally, philosophers have had most to say about the ethics of our treatment of non‐human animals (hereafter animals); it is only in recent years that social scientists have engaged with issues concerning humans and other animals. However, in the sociological literature and more generally in the emerging field of Human–Animal Studies (HAS), evidence of interest in the animal protection movement is slight. This review of Eliasian theory, Mar…
Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice: A Review of the Sociological Literature
This guide accompanies the following article : The Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice: A Review of the Sociological Literature, Compass 6/2 (2012): pp. 166–181, 10.1111/j.1751‐9020.2011.00440.x Author’s introduction The animal rights movement has been described as one of the most neglected and misunderstood social movements of our era. However, social movement scholars are beginning to realise the political and moral significance of th…
Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property
James J. Marino. Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 204 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4296–6. - Volume 64 Issue 3
Marlowe on the Caroline Stage
This essay explores revivals and appropriations of Marlowe's plays during the period 1625-42, examining the paradoxical status of plays such as Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta as both exemplars of an older tradition and works that continued to have life and vitality on the Caroline stage. After looking at the Caroline theatrical paratexts for The Jew of Malta, I explore sustained allusions to Tamburlaine in plays produced on the …
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613)
Edel Lamb. Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613). Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii + 189 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–0–23020–261–0. - Volume 62 Issue 4
The Social Scientific Study of Nonhuman Animals: A Five-volume Collection Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (Vols 1-5)
Popular Theatre and the Red Bull
Governing the Pen to the Capacity of the Stage: Reading the Red Bull and Clerkenwell by Lucy Munro: This essay introduces the Issues in Review section ‘Popular Theatre and the Red Bull’, which highlights new work on the Red Bull theatre and its Clerkenwell locality. It suggests ways in which this group of essays relate to current ideas about repertory approaches to early drama, and concludes with a look at the career of actor-dramatist Thomas Jor…
Mobilising Emotions: Affective Work in Animal Protection
Index
Interview and Survey Data
Animal Abuse as a Social Problem
Cruelty and Compassion in a Decent Society
Conclusion
Acronyms
The Animal Problem in Social Context
Practising Animal Activism: Exposure and Interference Strategies
Diagnosing Cruelty: Intellectual Work in Animal Advocacy
Preliminary Material
The Humour of Children: Performance, Gender, and the Early Modern Children's Companies
This article focuses on the professional and semi‐professional children's companies of early modern England. I first provide a brief overview of the children's companies, suggesting that criticism needs to provide fuller accounts of both early sixteenth‐century and mid‐seventeenth‐century experiments with children's performance. In the second section, I explore recent criticism of the children's companies and children's performance. In doing so, …
Strategies, Action Repertoires and DIY Activism in the Animal Rights Movement
Following Tilly, this paper argues that a social movement is what it does as much as why it does it. This approach is particularly important in the case of the animal rights movement, which is often demonized as extremist and violent. Critics of the movement claim that animal activists use letter bombs, arson attacks and threats to intimidate those they see as animal abusers and that violent direct action of this kind is typical of the movement a…
Confronting Cruelty: Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement
Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming ,blood…
Caring about Blood, Flesh, and Pain: Women's Standing in the Animal Protection Movement
Using the results of a survey of animal rights activists, advocates, and supporters, the paper reveals much more convergence (80%) than divergence (20%) of attitudes and actions by male and female animal protectionists. Analysis of the divergence suggests that the differences between men and women in the movement are contingent upon such things as early socialization, gendered work and leisure patterns, affinity with companion animals, ambivalenc…
Framing Cruelty: The Construction of Duck Shooting as a Social Problem
Australia's Coalition Against Duck Shooting (CADS) sees duck-shooting as a social problem and as an injustice with moral, legal and environmental consequences. The small animal liberationist group has succeeded in dramatically reducing the numbers of duck shooters in Victoria, which is the home of duck-shooting in Australia. The Coalition's framing work with the public via the electronic media involves three parts: a diagnosis (assembling claims)…
The Animal Activism of Henry Spira (1927-1998)
This paper profiles the animal activism of the late American animal activist Henry Spira, whose campaign strategies and tactics suggest a number of links with the nineteenth century pioneers of animal protection as well as with approaches favored by contemporary animal activists. However, the article argues that Spira's style of animal advocacy differed from conventional approaches in the mainstream animal movement in that he preferred to work wi…
The Live Animal Export Controversy in Australia: A Moral Crusade Made for the Mass Media
This article analyses a recent media campaign by Animals Australia and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission which exposed the cruelties of the live animal export trade in Australia. The television story ‘A Bloody Business’ aired by the country's leading investigative programme Four Corners caused an immediate and unprecedented expression of anger by thousands of view…
Contesting Moral Capital in Campaigns Against Animal Liberation
This article addresses a countermovement to the animal liberation movement and its campaigns against vivisection, factory farming, and recreational hunting in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. As moderate welfarists, pragmatic animal liberationists (Singer 1975), and radical abolitionists who advocate animal rights, animal protectionists campaign for animals. The countermovement defends acts that animal protectionists decry. M…
Ages and Stages: The place of theatre in the lives of older people
Despite the growing interest amongst gerontologists and literary and cultural scholars alike, in arts participation, ageing and the artistic outputs of older people, comparatively little attention has yet been paid to theatre and drama. Likewise, community or participatory theatre has long been used to address issues affecting marginalised or excluded groups, but it is a presently under-utilised medium for exploring ageing or for conveying positi…
Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights
Introduction: Compassionate Beasts A Short History of Animal Protection Profile of a Social Movement The Compassionate Beast: A Movement of Hearts and Minds Grassroots Activism in the Streets The Prototype Activist-Advocate: An Australian Hybrid Animal Rights Amateurism and Professionalism Grassroots Activists and Ethical Vegetarianism Farm Animals: Media Exposure and Collective Action Organisational Advocacy in the Suites Multi-Issue Advocacy in…
Framing Cruelty: The Construction of Duck Shooting as a Social Problem
Australia's Coalition Against Duck Shooting (CADS) sees duck-shooting as a social problem and as an injustice with moral, legal and environmental consequences. The small animal liberationist group has succeeded in dramatically reducing the numbers of duck shooters in Victoria, which is the home of duck-shooting in Australia. The Coalition's framing work with the public via the electronic media involves three parts: a diagnosis (assembling claims)…
Contesting Moral Capital in Campaigns Against Animal Liberation
This article addresses a countermovement to the animal liberation movement and its campaigns against vivisection, factory farming, and recreational hunting in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. As moderate welfarists, pragmatic animal liberationists (Singer 1975), and radical abolitionists who advocate animal rights, animal protectionists campaign for animals. The countermovement defends acts that animal protectionists decry. M…
Caring about Blood, Flesh, and Pain: Women's Standing in the Animal Protection Movement
Using the results of a survey of animal rights activists, advocates, and supporters, the paper reveals much more convergence (80%) than divergence (20%) of attitudes and actions by male and female animal protectionists. Analysis of the divergence suggests that the differences between men and women in the movement are contingent upon such things as early socialization, gendered work and leisure patterns, affinity with companion animals, ambivalenc…
The Animal Activism of Henry Spira (1927-1998)
This paper profiles the animal activism of the late American animal activist Henry Spira, whose campaign strategies and tactics suggest a number of links with the nineteenth century pioneers of animal protection as well as with approaches favored by contemporary animal activists. However, the article argues that Spira's style of animal advocacy differed from conventional approaches in the mainstream animal movement in that he preferred to work wi…
Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights
Introduction: Compassionate Beasts A Short History of Animal Protection Profile of a Social Movement The Compassionate Beast: A Movement of Hearts and Minds Grassroots Activism in the Streets The Prototype Activist-Advocate: An Australian Hybrid Animal Rights Amateurism and Professionalism Grassroots Activists and Ethical Vegetarianism Farm Animals: Media Exposure and Collective Action Organisational Advocacy in the Suites Multi-Issue Advocacy in…
Mobilising Emotions: Affective Work in Animal Protection
Index
Interview and Survey Data
Animal Abuse as a Social Problem
Cruelty and Compassion in a Decent Society
Conclusion
Acronyms
The Animal Problem in Social Context
Practising Animal Activism: Exposure and Interference Strategies
Diagnosing Cruelty: Intellectual Work in Animal Advocacy
Preliminary Material
The Humour of Children: Performance, Gender, and the Early Modern Children's Companies
This article focuses on the professional and semi‐professional children's companies of early modern England. I first provide a brief overview of the children's companies, suggesting that criticism needs to provide fuller accounts of both early sixteenth‐century and mid‐seventeenth‐century experiments with children's performance. In the second section, I explore recent criticism of the children's companies and children's performance. In doing so, …
Confronting Cruelty: Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement
Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Responses to this question provide important insights into the much misunderstood animal rights movement and the people in it who challenge the moral orthodoxy that underpins our attitudes towards nonhuman animals. The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming ,blood…
Strategies, Action Repertoires and DIY Activism in the Animal Rights Movement
Following Tilly, this paper argues that a social movement is what it does as much as why it does it. This approach is particularly important in the case of the animal rights movement, which is often demonized as extremist and violent. Critics of the movement claim that animal activists use letter bombs, arson attacks and threats to intimidate those they see as animal abusers and that violent direct action of this kind is typical of the movement a…
Popular Theatre and the Red Bull
Governing the Pen to the Capacity of the Stage: Reading the Red Bull and Clerkenwell by Lucy Munro: This essay introduces the Issues in Review section ‘Popular Theatre and the Red Bull’, which highlights new work on the Red Bull theatre and its Clerkenwell locality. It suggests ways in which this group of essays relate to current ideas about repertory approaches to early drama, and concludes with a look at the career of actor-dramatist Thomas Jor…
The Social Scientific Study of Nonhuman Animals: A Five-volume Collection Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (Vols 1-5)
Marlowe on the Caroline Stage
This essay explores revivals and appropriations of Marlowe's plays during the period 1625-42, examining the paradoxical status of plays such as Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta as both exemplars of an older tradition and works that continued to have life and vitality on the Caroline stage. After looking at the Caroline theatrical paratexts for The Jew of Malta, I explore sustained allusions to Tamburlaine in plays produced on the …
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613)
Edel Lamb. Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599–1613). Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii + 189 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–0–23020–261–0. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property
James J. Marino. Owning William Shakespeare: The King’s Men and Their Intellectual Property. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 204 pp. index. illus. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 978–0–8122–4296–6. - Volume 64 Issue 3
The Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice: A Review of the Sociological Literature
Traditionally, philosophers have had most to say about the ethics of our treatment of non‐human animals (hereafter animals); it is only in recent years that social scientists have engaged with issues concerning humans and other animals. However, in the sociological literature and more generally in the emerging field of Human–Animal Studies (HAS), evidence of interest in the animal protection movement is slight. This review of Eliasian theory, Mar…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Animal rights (12 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Environmental ethics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Cruelty (8 works)