The Animal Welfare Movement in Interwar Poland
An Introductory Sketch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6224151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Plach (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 21-43 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Polish Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2970 • E-ISSN: 2330-0841 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/41558079 |
| OpenAlex | W4313029287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the animal welfare movement in the Second Polish Republic (1918 to 1939). It focuses on two major animal welfare organizations, the Society for the Protection of Animals, and the Polish League for the Friends of Animals, both of which were based in Warsaw and had branches throughout the country. The purpose is to introduce readers to these two groups and to the broader subject of animal welfare activism in Poland; no previous scholarship exists on this topic. The purpose, too, is to place that activism in the context of newly established statehood, and to show that animal protectionists injected their work with a nationalist purpose and potential. While their main aim was to protect defenseless creatures, activists also believed that a strong animal welfare movement would cement the new Poland’s identity as a modern, civilized, and "European" nation
Aesthetics · Animal welfare · Art · Context (archaeology) · Creatures · Identity (music) · League · Movement (music) · Nationalism · Natural (archaeology) · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Sketch · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Welfare · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |