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Book SynopsisGiven their tendency to splinter over tactics and goals, social movements are rarely unified. Following the modern Western animal rights movement over thirty years, Corey Lee Wrenn applies the sociological theory to examine structural conditions in the animal rights movement, facilitating factionalism in today’s era of professionalized advocacy.
Trade Review“Corey Wrenn’s book highlights the ubiquity of ‘symbol mining’ from radical factions by professional ones; the consolidation of movement power by the ‘nonprofit industrial complex’; and the vulnerability of the NPIC to co-option by the state and capital.
Piecemeal Protest provides an invaluable critical sociological analysis, both in terms social movement scholarship and for the lessons it contains for the NHA movement.”- Matthew Cole, The Open University
“Piecemeal Protest will make an important contribution to the literature and will be of significant interest to countless scholars and activists across disciplines and social justice movements. It will capture the interest of general readers and will further their ability for critical thought and praxis. This book will be valuable in a range of university courses, from social movement classes, to the growing number of animals and society courses emerging throughout the world, to women’s studies courses.”- David A. Nibert, Wittenberg University
