Animal activism in the business school: Using fierce compassion for teaching critical and positive perspectives

Autor:	Lindsay Hamilton, Linda Tallberg, Liisa Välikangas
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Business education Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Animal ethics General Decision Sciences Food systems Engineering ethics Compassion Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Management Learning. 53:55-75
ISSN:	1461-7307 1350-5076
DOI:	10.1177/13505076211044612
Popis:	This article explores a practical approach to teaching animal ethics in food systems as part of a business course. We argue that tackling such complex and emotionally charged topics is vital to shifting unsustainable and hurtful behaviours towards more positive futures. Our teaching example outlines a pedagogy of courageously witnessing, inquiring with empathy and prompting positive action; an activist approach we term fierce compassion. These three layers blend positive and critical perspectives in a classroom to address contentious issues of large-scale industrial animal production hitherto largely neglected in a traditional business curriculum. While acknowledging that academic activism is controversial, we argue that fierce compassion – noticing the suffering that is remote and often systemically hidden – can inform and structure education towards more post-anthropocentric and just futures for all living beings – human and nonhuman alike.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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