EAN: 9783030627942

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL MOVEM...

This open access book is the biography of one of Britain's foremost animal welfare campaigners
and of the world of activism  science  and politics she inhabited. In 1964  Ruth Harrison's
bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising
the term 'factory farming' alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here 
historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison's avant-garde upbringing  Quakerism  and how
animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental
trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder  Kirchhelle
reconstructs Harrison's 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare
politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison's own actions  the decades after
1964 saw a polarisation of animalpolitics  a professionalisation of British activism  and the
rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison's belief in incremental reform allowed her to
form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical campaigners. Many of her
1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However  farm animal welfare's
increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social
improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. This is the first book to cast light on the
interlinked histories of British farm animal welfare activism  science  and legislation. Its
unique scope allows it to go beyond existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will
be of interest to those interested in animal welfare  environmentalism  and the behavioural
sciences.

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