Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism could lead to stigma and destruction of minority group identities, cultural practices, and community structures.

Danita Catherine Burke is a research fellow at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. She has a PhD from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK, and graduate degrees in Political Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dr. Burke’s research has been supported by funding bodies such as the Rothermere Foundations Trust, Carlsberg Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, the J.R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.