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The radical "eco-terrorist" animal rights movement : conflicting frames of the Animal Liberation Front

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    Creator (cre): Booth-Balk, Maya
    Advisor (adv): Cordner, Alissa
    Department (dpt): Whitman College. Sociology - Environmental Studies
    Date
    May 13, 2015
    Graduation Year
    2015
    Abstract

    Criminality stemming from radical environmental and animal rights extremism is largely a modern phenomenon of the late twentieth century. This phenomenon has often been labeled the "eco-terrorist" movement. However, is this term truly a validation of the movement’s ideology and actions? The most active radical animal rights group in the United States, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), commits extreme actions to end animal suffering in the multitude of ways that animals are used for human purpose. The actions of the ALF have had widespread implications across many societal institutions and groups, including the political and media sphere. My research uses qualitative content analysis of contemporary ALF communiqués, FBI publications, and news articles to examine how each expresses and presents the ALF organization. By using framing theory and its main components of framing contests and counter-framing, as well as an inspection of ideological perspectives related to environmental concerns of the ALF, I seek to explain how the ALF organization is framed and, more importantly, the reasons as to why.

    Subject
    United States -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Domestic Terrorism/Counterterrorism Planning Section
    Animal Liberation Front -- History
    Earth Liberation Front
    Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Framing theory
    Radicalism and the press -- United States
    Environmentalism -- Press coverage
    Offenses against the environment -- United States
    Radicals -- Environmentalists
    Radicals -- Animal Rights Activists
    Social sciences
    Environmental sciences
    Academic theses
    Whitman College 2015 -- Dissertation collection -- Sociology-Environmental Studies
    Geographic Subject
    United States
    Genre
    Theses
    Extent
    88 pages
    Permanent URL
    http://works.whitman.edu/20151119
    Rights
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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