Farmed nonhuman animals in newspapers and Aphro-ism
- Autores: Lukas Leitinger
- Localización: Animal Ethics Review (AER), ISSN-e 2696-4643, Vol. 1, Nº. 1 (Special Issue: Communication and Advocacy), 2021, págs. 64-73
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Critical discourse analys is of farmed nonhuman animals in newspaper shass of a rreliedona common problem understanding. This understanding is frame das species is m,as a human-animal issue, "similar" to racism or sexism. Additionally, scientific evidence of sentience or suffering aids to argue against species is m.In their recent book Aphro-ism, Aphand SylKo (2017a) describe their framework of black veganism. Aphro-ism challenges the conventional definition of species is man dinstead formulates animal oppression as more than a mere human-animal issue. Instead, Koand Koidentify the common source of oppressions in white, human supremacy which harm sall who are considered "not-quite-human. Aphro-ism also questions the reliance on scientific evidence as an argument agains to ppression. Asoppression is not based on observable differences, scientific evidence doesnot get to its ideological roots. Overall, KoandKo (2017a) urge for a closer investigation in to the ideological and conceptual roots of oppression, and for an exploration of alternative frameworks rooted in antiracist and decolonial traditions.Thus, the Aphroism perspective provides an extra layer for analyzing how commodify in gor objectifying language and animal oppression are interlinked. This article discusses how Ko and Ko's perspective can enrich the newspaper research on farmed nonhuman animalsټrepresentation in both its conceptual approaches and findings
