Religion, Animals, and Racialization: Articulating Islamophobia through Animal Ethics in The Netherlands
In 2008, the Dutch Party for the Animals submitted a proposal to ban religious slaughter without prior stunning. The proposal was widely supported in the Lower House but finally rejected in the Upper House in 2012, mainly on the grounds of religious freedom. Academia was keen to study the polemic, but no research has attempted to study the controversy through a lens of racialization. This is remarkable, given the well-documented increase in Islamophobia and the political use of racism since (at least) the turn of the millennium in The Netherlands (and the geopolitical “West” at large). In this... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | ritual slaughter / religion / animal ethics / animal advocacy politics / racialization / Islamophobia / the Muslim Question |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29179861 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100955 |