The Animal Rights Movement in Argentina and the Emergence of Antispeciesist Approaches to the Environment-Society Relationship

The focus of the paper is to review the approaches taken by the activists aligned with the animal rights movement in Argentina, analyzing their perceptions and imaginaries about how they interpret the relationship between environment and society, and the concept of speciesism and animalism. The results presented, emerge from semi structured interviews carried out with referents and members of three antispeciesist animal rights organizations. The analysis takes a qualitative approach to know and understand the perceptions, imaginaries, visions and approaches that activists propose in order to deepen the foundations and collective knowledge tending to the defense of animals and the transformation of the speciesist relationship between environment and society. The process for data collection was based on theoretical sampling. 20 semi structured interviews were carried out with activists between 2017 and 2018. The time period covered until December 2018.