Can’t you talk?’ Voice and visual culture in early animal welfare campaigns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12895641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Keri Cronin (Brock University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 203-223 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Early Popular Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-0654 • E-ISSN: 1746-0662 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17460654.2011.601162 |
| OpenAlex | W2034569642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The early century animal welfare movement was a very visual phenomenon. From lectures illustrated with lantern slides to graphic images depicting acts of cruelty towards animals, this reform movement relied heavily on visual culture in both a pedagogical and performative sense. While animal imagery is certainly to be expected in campaigns dealing with the health and well-being of dogs, cats, horses and other nonhuman creatures, my research on this topic points to more complex representational strategies informing this practice. I argue, for instance, that the selection of images published by early animal welfare activists often provided spaces in which ideas around ‘animal voice’ and ‘animal agency’ could be imagined, often in ways that were contradictory to the dominant discourses of the animal welfare movement
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Animal welfare · Art · Biology · Creatures · Criminology · Cruelty · Linguistics · Movement (music · Natural (archaeology · Performative utterance · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual culture · Welfare · Anthropology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |