'Go On, Get Out There, And Make It Happen': Reflections on the First Ten Years of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)

• Autores: Andrew Upton
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 65, Nº 1, 2012, págs. 238-254
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Economic sabotage has been a feature of the more radical parts of the animal rights and liberation movement in the western world for several decades. Rather than just underground, politically motivate actions from disenfranchised activists, economic sabotage should be seen as a selective, well-calculated strategy practised by empowered activists. Using an analysis of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, this piece argues how ‘sabotage’—a repertoire of contentious actions which straddle legality—has more recently been facilitated by the proliferation and use of information communications technologies (Internet, email and mobile telephony). In view of this development, this article seeks to illustrate its role within the direct action domain of the UK animal rights and liberation movement, and examines some of the UK governments responses.