David Nibert

David Alan Nibert (* 1953 ) is an American author and sociologist specializing in human-animal studies at Wittenberg University ( Springfield, Ohio ).

After a theory of animal rights had previously been established in animal ethics through the works of Richard Ryder , Peter Singer and Tom Regan , Nibert was one of the first to investigate the human-animal relationship from a sociological point of view under these new signs. Together with Anna Williams and many others, he established a “Section on Animals and Society” in the American Sociological Association and was awarded the “Prize for Outstanding Research” in 2005.

Starting from a criticism of the concept speciesism these authors he presents in his book Animal Rights / Human Rights , the treatment of animals and human marginalized group by privileged groups in an analogy that he calls repression. In contrast to the concept of speciesism, for example in the case of Peter Singer, Nibert understands speciesism not merely as an “unjustifiable prejudice against members of other species”, but as an ideology whose function it is to rationalize and legitimize a relationship of oppression. Analogous to the analysis by Robert Blauner , who examined racism as an ideology, Nibert takes the position that prejudice and discrimination are certainly important elements of a social construction process of speciesism. However, reducing speciesism as an ideology to individual discrimination leads, according to Nibert, to ignoring oppressive conditions and structures in society as a whole. A policy that explains this oppressive relationship with individual prejudices obscures the necessity and thus takes away the possibility of structural changes.

He uses the approach of Donald Noel , which explains ethnic stratification (i.e. ethnic social stratification ) with a theory of oppression . According to this, ethnic stratification is a product of three interacting factors, namely:

1. Competition between different groups for resources
2. Unequal power distribution and
3. Ethnocentrism : "A worldview that puts one's own group at the center and evaluates everything else according to their criteria"

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Books

• Animal Rights / Human Rights. Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, ISBN 0-7425-1776-4 .
• Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: State Governments and the Taxing of Dreams. Monthly Review Press, ISBN 1-58367-014-9 .
• David A. Nibert, Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence: the Entangled Oppression of Humans and Other Animals . Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-15188-8 .

items

• Consuming the Surplus: Expanding "Meat" Consumption and Animal Oppression. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy. 24 (9): 76-96. With Bill Winders
• Humans and other animals: sociology's moral and intellectual challenge. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Year: 2003 Volume: 23 Issue: 3 pp. 4-25.

Web links

• Discussion with Roger Yates and Helen Masterman-Smith on the Animal Rights Zone Podcast.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile on the website of the University of Wittenberg.
2. ^ Animals and Society - An American Sociological Association Section-in-Formation ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (May 2001; PDF; 146 kB) 
3. ↑ Section on Animals and Society ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Recipients of 2005 Section Awards ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , American Sociological Association.  
4. ^ Peter Singer: Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement . Reissue. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009, ISBN 0-06-171130-6 , pp. 6 .
5. ^ B. Blauner: Racial oppression in America . Harper & Row New York, 1972, pp. 8-10 .
6. ↑ Donald L. Noel: A Theory of the Origin of Ethnic Stratification . In: Social Problems . 16, No. 2, 1968, pp. 157-172. doi : 10.1525 / sp.1968.16.2.03a00030 .