Articles
Animal rights and environmental terrorism
Authors:
- Steve CookeEmail Steve Cooke
Abstract
Many paradigmatic forms of animal rights and environmental activism have been classed as terrorism both in popular discourse and in law. This paper argues that the labelling of many violent forms of direct action carried out in the name of animal rights or environmentalism as ‘terrorism’ is incorrect. Furthermore, the claim is also made that even those acts which are correctly termed as terrorism are not necessarily wrongful acts. The result of this analysis is to call into question the terms of public debate and the legitimacy of anti-terrorism laws targeting and punishing radical activism.
- Year: 2013
- Volume: 4 Issue: 2
- DOI: 10.15664/jtr.532
- Submitted on 18 Dec 2012
- Published on 24 Sep 2013
- Peer Reviewed