Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights

Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it.

Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyz...