ANIMAL WELFARISM IN AMERICAN LAW: Animal Farming, Privilege, and Disempowerment.
The instrumentalization of rights and interests for furthering political and economic ends is a common phenomenon in contemporary societies. Routinely, these are a trojan horse to political goals that involve discrimination of disempowered groups. This phenomenon of instrumentalization is present in...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 37; pp. 60 - 82 |
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Kritika Kultura
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