Welcome to the basic FEWD bibliography about social science research about animal advocacy / rights / welfare and social movement!

These developing FEWD Bibliography includes relevant entries from our intense multidisciplinary database research. 

 Important information about the continuous research on social movements offers the International and the European Sociological Association, https://www.fewd.at/sociology/social-movements 

And certainly useful are the handbooks social movement, 
see https://www.fewd.at/sociology/social-movements-handbook

Here below you find a selection of the around 140 publications listed at  

https://www.fewd.at/aa/bibliography/social-movement

The FEWD Team selected here as basic for example a still in some way very important overview article, which was 2012 in Sociology Compass published. It was the first review of the sociological literature related to the Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice. 

*Munro, Lyle 2012.  Learning and Teaching Guide on the animal rights movement in theory and practice, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2012.00462.x/abstract   This guide accompanies the following article:

*Munro, Lyle 2012. The Animal Rights Movement in Theory and Practice: A Review of the Sociological Literature. Sociology Compass 6(2): 166-181.

And 2019 was of the first with focus on Italy published one, see

Bertuzzi, Niccolo 2019. Contemporary animal advocacy in Italy. Modern Italy: Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy 24 (1): 1-20. (1): 1-20.

Aavik, Kadri 2018 The animal advocacy movement in the Baltic states: links to other social justice issues and possibilities for intersectional activism. Journal of Baltic Studies, 49:4, 509-527. 

Cherry, Elizabeth. 2016. Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States. New York, NY, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Culture-and-Activism-Animal-Rights-in-France-and-the-United-States/Cherry/p/book/9781472476746