Núria Almiron
Biographic Data
| ID | 938422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Núria Almiron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Núria |
| FAMILY NAME | Almiron |
| SIGNATURE | ALMIRON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2482-0666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Compromised values: A comparative response during the Covid-19 crisis by ethical vegans and vegetarians
Animal advocacy is a complex phenomenon. As a social movement encompassing diverse moral stances and lifestyle choices, veganism and vegetarianism (veg*) are at its core, and animal testing raises as a notably contentious issue within its members. This paper addresses this critical topic. Employing data from an international quantitative survey conducted between June and July 2021, our research explores how ethical vegans and vegetarians responde…
Commodifying compassion: A critical discourse analysis of Spanish zoo, aquarium and animal theme parks’ lobbies
The influence of the zoological park industry on public compassion remains an understudied area that is pivotal to understanding how public relations—specifically persuasive communication—attempts to shape public consent regarding the use of animals in entertainment. This paper addresses this issue by conducting a critical discourse analysis of the main interest groups in Spain’s zoological park industry: AIZA, Grupo Parques Reunidos, and Loro Pa…
La regulación del pluralismo en Francia. Contexto, análisis e interpretación
El presente artículo ofrece una visión histórica y a la vez actualizada de la regulación de los medios de comunicación en Francia con respecto a la protección del pluralismo. Para ello se ha realizado un estudio del marco legal aplicable a los medios de comunicación en este país, que se ha complementado con la visión de expertos académicos y profesionales, periodistas, representantes sindicales, miembros de organismos públicos del audiovisual y p…
Illusory authenticity: Negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse
Society’s compassion towards nonhuman animals used in experimentation has grown exponentially. This paper adopts critical discourse analysis to examine how the animal experimentation industry negotiates this societal moral response. To this end, the discourse of the largest animal experimentation interest group in Spain has been studied. Our findings show that the industry, as represented by this interest group, does not negotiate compassion with…
Climate change contrarian think tanks in Europe: A network analysis
Drawing from network theory and previous findings from US-based analyses, we measure the structure and interconnectedness of climate contrarian think tanks in Europe. This exploratory analysis can illustrate European organizations’ capacity to promote or disrupt political discourse. To this end, we use social network analysis to conduct actor-focused research. We identify the individuals bridging European think tanks, as well as their ties with t…
Más allá del negacionismo del cambio climático. Retos conceptuales al comunicar la obstrucción de la acción climática
El cambio climático ha sido objeto de estudio frecuente desde distintos ámbitos de las ciencias sociales en las últimas décadas, también desde la comunicación. Gracias a ello, se ha generado una cada vez más abundante evidencia de la realidad compleja que se esconde tras la inacción política al respecto. Sin embargo, a la hora de comunicar esta realidad, los medios de comunicación, y una parte de la academia, han tendido a simplificar esta comple…
Lobbying against compassion: A review of the ethics of persuasion when nonhuman animal suffering is involved
This paper departs from a critical animal studies perspective—that is a perspective critical with speciesist anthropocentrism—in order to problematize public relations by industries harming other animals. To this end, it reviews the ethical and theoretical frameworks raised by critical public relations in order to adopt a critical stance towards what we call here “lobbying against compassion”—the practice of public relations, mainly lobbying, to …
Manufacturing ignorance: Think Tanks, Climate Change and the Animal-Based Diet
Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursive role of think tanks as prominent but under researched actors attempting to shape public policy. This contribution examines whether European think t…
Repensar los think tanks: Expertos vs. impostores = Rethinking Think Tanks : Experts vs Impostors
Nuestra experiencia en el estudio de los think tanks va, no obstante, más allá de la investigación que da lugar a este libro. La propuesta que aquí se ofrece refleja también la experiencia recopilada por su autora y autor durante más de una década en investigaciones académicas sobre los grupos de interés —sobre los think tanks en general, y sobre su papel en aspectos clave como la crisis financiera de 2007-2012 o la defensa del antropocen- trismo…
Representación en la prensa española del papel de la agricultura animal en la crisis climática
La agricultura animal es una actividad con un gran impacto medioambiental, incluida la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero a la atmósfera, y que implica un grave dilema ético por la explotación de decenas de miles de millones de animales no humanos. Los medios de comunicación son una pieza clave para impulsar la acción climática. Es responsabilidad de los medios informar sobre las causas de la crisis climática y cómo enfrentarla. Esta investig…
Performing Scottishness. Enactment and National Identities
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
The “Animal-Based Food Taboo.” Climate Change Denial and Deontological Codes in Journalism
In spite of the well-documented links between global warming and the animal-based diet, human dietary choices have been only timidly problematized by legacy media in the recent decades. Research on news reporting of the connection between the animal-based diet and climate change shows a clear coverage deficit in traditional journalism. In order to reflect on the reasons for this failure, this paper discusses moral anthropocentrism as the human-su…
Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction
This is the first book on climate change denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy.Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction is a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective.The book aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how strategi…
Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation
Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age
Greening Animal Defense? Examining Whether Appealing to Climate Change and the Environment Is an Effective Advocacy Strategy to Reduce Oppression of Nonhumans
Animal advocates are uncertain about whether it is effective to use environmental or climate change messages emphasizing the impact on global warming of factory farming along with, or even in place of, more radical and ideological messages emphasizing justice, abolition, and cruelty toward other animals. Particularly, the real, long-term effectiveness of environment-based arguments in general, and climate change arguments in particular, is unclea…
Environmental and Animal Defense
The controversy between the ultimate aims of environmental defense, on one hand, and animal defense, on the other, is a much unexplored topic. This special issue aims to fill this gap by gathering original thinking and outstanding research connected to the topics. We hope the unique discussion provided in this special issue is of help to philosophers, animal and environmental ethicists, critical animal studies scholars, and environmental sociolog…
Critical animal and media studies: Expanding the understanding of oppression in communication research
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
Mapping media accountability in stateless nations: The case of Catalonia
This article draws on the results of a research project on media accountability instruments in Catalonia. We map out media accountability in Catalonia focusing on institutional self-regulation instruments and outline their history compared to that of equivalent instruments in the rest of Spain and Europe. We discuss how the situation in Catalonia differs significantly from that of Spain in the context of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems models.…
Influence and Advocacy: Revisiting Hot Topics under Pressure
This article analyzes the inputs and constituencies (funding, founders, trustees, and experts) of the most influential group of think tanks in Spain during the great recession (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) in order to assess how far these think tanks were connected to other interest groups providing support for neoliberal policies.The aim of the article is to advance knowledge on think tank theory and it addresses three researc…
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
Crisis and Interest: The Political Economy of Think Tanks During the Great Recession
This article analyzes the inputs and constituencies (funding, founders, trustees, and experts) of the most influential group of think tanks in Spain during the great recession (2008-2015) in order to assess how far these think tanks were connected to other interest groups providing support for neoliberal policies. The aim of the article is to advance knowledge on think tank theory and it addresses three research goals: (a) assessing how far Spani…
Eating Meat and Climate Change: The Media Blind Spot—A Study of Spanish and Italian Press Coverage
There is strong evidence that a meat and dairy-based diet is a very important contributor to climate change. However, the correlation between the production and consumption of livestock and anthropogenic climate change has received minimal media coverage. The literature for English-speaking countries shows a sort of media blind spot for meat in that the news media barely address, or do not address, the responsibility of individuals' dietary choic…
Critical Animal and Media Studies: Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
At approximately 10:00 pm on 5th June, 2010, nine-month-old twins, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were reported to have been attacked in their cots by a fox who had entered their family home in east London through an open ground-floor door before making her or his way upstairs and attacking the twins, resulting in arm and facial injuries requiring the twins’ hospitalization. Although the fox allegedly involved in the incident left the house without…
Critical Animal and Media Studies: Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
At approximately 10:00 pm on 5th June, 2010, nine-month-old twins, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were reported to have been attacked in their cots by a fox who had entered their family home in east London through an open ground-floor door before making her or his way upstairs and attacking the twins, resulting in arm and facial injuries requiring the twins’ hospitalization. Although the fox allegedly involved in the incident left the house without…
An Angry Cow is Not a Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
Recent developments in the ideology of speciesism (meaning bias against members of other animal species) within the media deserve analysis. Such discussion is important because speciesism is a major ethical concern. Nonhuman animals suffer massive harm within the industrial farming complex, confined throughout their lives and a high proportion killed while still infants or juveniles. The joint efforts of material institutions, cultural narratives…
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
Critical animal and media studies: Expanding the understanding of oppression in communication research
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
Representación en la prensa española del papel de la agricultura animal en la crisis climática
La agricultura animal es una actividad con un gran impacto medioambiental, incluida la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero a la atmósfera, y que implica un grave dilema ético por la explotación de decenas de miles de millones de animales no humanos. Los medios de comunicación son una pieza clave para impulsar la acción climática. Es responsabilidad de los medios informar sobre las causas de la crisis climática y cómo enfrentarla. Esta investig…
Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
Manufacturing ignorance: Think Tanks, Climate Change and the Animal-Based Diet
Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue of this link until very recently. To better understand this lack of attention, we focus on the discursive role of think tanks as prominent but under researched actors attempting to shape public policy. This contribution examines whether European think t…
Greening Animal Defense? Examining Whether Appealing to Climate Change and the Environment Is an Effective Advocacy Strategy to Reduce Oppression of Nonhumans
Animal advocates are uncertain about whether it is effective to use environmental or climate change messages emphasizing the impact on global warming of factory farming along with, or even in place of, more radical and ideological messages emphasizing justice, abolition, and cruelty toward other animals. Particularly, the real, long-term effectiveness of environment-based arguments in general, and climate change arguments in particular, is unclea…
Crisis and Interest: The Political Economy of Think Tanks During the Great Recession
This article analyzes the inputs and constituencies (funding, founders, trustees, and experts) of the most influential group of think tanks in Spain during the great recession (2008-2015) in order to assess how far these think tanks were connected to other interest groups providing support for neoliberal policies. The aim of the article is to advance knowledge on think tank theory and it addresses three research goals: (a) assessing how far Spani…
The Regulation of Public Broadcasters' News Coverage of Political Actors in Ten European Union Countries
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación comparada realizada sobre la regulación de la cobertura de la información política en diez operadores públicos europeos. En concreto, el estudio investiga si existe regulación del pluralismo político, tanto para períodos electorales como ordinarios, aplicable a los informativos diarios. Aquí se proporcionan los resultados para cada país y las conclusiones comparadas. Los datos informan de…
Grupos privados propietarios de medios de comunicación en España: Principales datos estructurales y financieros
Este artículo ofrece una panorámica actualizada de los principales actores empresariales privados del sistema de medios español. El texto revisa los principales datos de los grupos propietarios de medios de comunicación que operaban en España a principios de 2009, a partir del análisis de los documentos corporativos públicos que están disponibles: sus resultados financieros, la estructura de su propiedad, su procedencia geográfica, sus principale…
Communication Policies and the Protection of Pluralism in the European Union and the United States
This article describes and analyses the regulatory frameworks and the current pluralism protection policies in the United States and several countries of the European Union (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain). The data obtained allowed a qualitative assessment to be carried out, through a comparative analysis, in order to identify certain similarities and some significant differences. Thus, it was found that pl…
ICTs and Financial Crime: An Innocent Fraud
The democratizing dimension of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a widely accepted proposition. Although this is repeatedly emphasized and expounded by economic, political and social theories that deal with the analysis of the Information Society, its actual significance has been systematically neglected. ICTs are exclusively approached either from the perspective of the globalization of knowledge or from the perspectiv…
Ideology, Politics, and Opinion Journalism: A Content Analysis of Spanish Online-Only Newspapers
This study examines the ideological slant of Spanish digital-native opinion journalism. Political-ideological pluralism is a well-researched topic in media and journalism studies, yet there is less research regarding this topic when it comes to exclusively online media. This paper addresses that gap concerning the ways online-only opinion journalism can be defined in terms of their political ideology, and to what extent extreme ideological positi…
Alimentación y calentamiento global: «La larga sombra del ganado» en la prensa española
Global warming framing in the news and its anthropogenic causes is of great importance for the apprehension of the subject by the public and, therefore, for the correct understanding of the individual responsibility of each one of us. For years this representation exhibited an irrational scepticism already abandoned by most of the media. However, the coverage of this topic is still rooted in mental structures that prevent processing real facts pr…
An Angry Cow is Not a Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
Recent developments in the ideology of speciesism (meaning bias against members of other animal species) within the media deserve analysis. Such discussion is important because speciesism is a major ethical concern. Nonhuman animals suffer massive harm within the industrial farming complex, confined throughout their lives and a high proportion killed while still infants or juveniles. The joint efforts of material institutions, cultural narratives…
Eating Meat and Climate Change: The Media Blind Spot—A Study of Spanish and Italian Press Coverage
There is strong evidence that a meat and dairy-based diet is a very important contributor to climate change. However, the correlation between the production and consumption of livestock and anthropogenic climate change has received minimal media coverage. The literature for English-speaking countries shows a sort of media blind spot for meat in that the news media barely address, or do not address, the responsibility of individuals' dietary choic…
Critical Animal and Media Studies: Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
At approximately 10:00 pm on 5th June, 2010, nine-month-old twins, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were reported to have been attacked in their cots by a fox who had entered their family home in east London through an open ground-floor door before making her or his way upstairs and attacking the twins, resulting in arm and facial injuries requiring the twins’ hospitalization. Although the fox allegedly involved in the incident left the house without…
Framing farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights
Framing farming: communication strategies for animal rights." Social Movement Studies, 15(4), pp. 435–436
Mapping media accountability in stateless nations: The case of Catalonia
This article draws on the results of a research project on media accountability instruments in Catalonia. We map out media accountability in Catalonia focusing on institutional self-regulation instruments and outline their history compared to that of equivalent instruments in the rest of Spain and Europe. We discuss how the situation in Catalonia differs significantly from that of Spain in the context of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems models.…
Influence and Advocacy: Revisiting Hot Topics under Pressure
This article analyzes the inputs and constituencies (funding, founders, trustees, and experts) of the most influential group of think tanks in Spain during the great recession (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) in order to assess how far these think tanks were connected to other interest groups providing support for neoliberal policies.The aim of the article is to advance knowledge on think tank theory and it addresses three researc…
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
Crisis and Interest: The Political Economy of Think Tanks During the Great Recession
This article analyzes the inputs and constituencies (funding, founders, trustees, and experts) of the most influential group of think tanks in Spain during the great recession (2008-2015) in order to assess how far these think tanks were connected to other interest groups providing support for neoliberal policies. The aim of the article is to advance knowledge on think tank theory and it addresses three research goals: (a) assessing how far Spani…
Critical animal and media studies: Expanding the understanding of oppression in communication research
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction
This is the first book on climate change denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy.Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction is a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective.The book aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how strategi…
Rethinking the Ethical Challenge in the Climate Deadlock: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Denial and Animal Liberation
Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age
Greening Animal Defense? Examining Whether Appealing to Climate Change and the Environment Is an Effective Advocacy Strategy to Reduce Oppression of Nonhumans
Animal advocates are uncertain about whether it is effective to use environmental or climate change messages emphasizing the impact on global warming of factory farming along with, or even in place of, more radical and ideological messages emphasizing justice, abolition, and cruelty toward other animals. Particularly, the real, long-term effectiveness of environment-based arguments in general, and climate change arguments in particular, is unclea…
Environmental and Animal Defense
The controversy between the ultimate aims of environmental defense, on one hand, and animal defense, on the other, is a much unexplored topic. This special issue aims to fill this gap by gathering original thinking and outstanding research connected to the topics. We hope the unique discussion provided in this special issue is of help to philosophers, animal and environmental ethicists, critical animal studies scholars, and environmental sociolog…
The “Animal-Based Food Taboo.” Climate Change Denial and Deontological Codes in Journalism
In spite of the well-documented links between global warming and the animal-based diet, human dietary choices have been only timidly problematized by legacy media in the recent decades. Research on news reporting of the connection between the animal-based diet and climate change shows a clear coverage deficit in traditional journalism. In order to reflect on the reasons for this failure, this paper discusses moral anthropocentrism as the human-su…
Repensar los think tanks: Expertos vs. impostores = Rethinking Think Tanks : Experts vs Impostors
Nuestra experiencia en el estudio de los think tanks va, no obstante, más allá de la investigación que da lugar a este libro. La propuesta que aquí se ofrece refleja también la experiencia recopilada por su autora y autor durante más de una década en investigaciones académicas sobre los grupos de interés —sobre los think tanks en general, y sobre su papel en aspectos clave como la crisis financiera de 2007-2012 o la defensa del antropocen- trismo…
Representación en la prensa española del papel de la agricultura animal en la crisis climática
La agricultura animal es una actividad con un gran impacto medioambiental, incluida la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero a la atmósfera, y que implica un grave dilema ético por la explotación de decenas de miles de millones de animales no humanos. Los medios de comunicación son una pieza clave para impulsar la acción climática. Es responsabilidad de los medios informar sobre las causas de la crisis climática y cómo enfrentarla. Esta investig…
Performing Scottishness. Enactment and National Identities
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
Political science (31 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Environmental ethics (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Ecology (8 works)