Animal Suffering and Public Relations - The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex - the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.

List of contents

PART I. Introduction

• Animal suffering, the animal-industrial complex, and the ethics of persuasion

Núria Almiron
PART II: Public relations, persuasion, and compassion towards other animals

• On Critical Public Relations and the moral consideration of other animals

Núria Almiron & Laura Fernández

• On compassion, influence, and animal suffering

Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo & Núria Almiron
PART III. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-industrial complex

• Harming animals, degrading the public sphere. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-based food industry

Eze Paez & Pablo Magaña
Case study: The meat lobby and the World Health Organization
Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• Fatal Attractions. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-based entertainment industry

Paula Casal & Macarena Montes Franceschini
Case study: SeaWorld against the documentary Blackfish
Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• For an Ethics of Care. The ethics of persuasion of the animal experimentation industry

Fabiola Leyton
Case study: Huntingdon Life Science and the SHAC Campaign
Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• Deadly Influence. The ethics of persuasion of the environmental management industry

Catia Faria
Case Study: The Catalan Hunting Federation and Wild Boars Management
Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron
PART IV. Rejecting speciesism

• Lobbying and persuasion on behalf of nonhuman animals. Psychological insights

Daniela Romero Waldhorn

• Speciesism and Persuasion. A Conclusion

Oscar Horta, Núria Almiron and Dayron Terán
Index

About the author

Núria Almiron is a co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and a tenured professor in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of research include the ethics and political economy of communication-particularly interest groups and persuasive communication-from a critical animal studies perspective. She is the author/editor of several books in various languages, the latest being 'Like an animal'. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering (coedited with Natalie Khazaal, Brill 2021). Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Journalism Studies, Environmental Communication, and European Journal of Communication.

Summary

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex – the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.

Product details

• Authors: Nuria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Almiron
• Assisted by: Núria Almiron (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032348377
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234837-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; Advertising, Business & Economics / General, Public Relations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Relations, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Political structure & processes, Communication Studies, Political structure and processes, public relations;P&R;persuasion;persuasion ethics;lobbying