POKRET ZA PRAVA ŽIVOTINJA U RH: POKUŠAJ PREGLEDA
THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA : A REVIEW

Summary/Abstract: The article stems from a review of the animal rights movement in the Republic of Croatia, in both its theoretical and activist orientation. Namely, as far as theoretical animal studies is concerned the key role has been played by Nikola Visković – university professor of Law at the Faculty of Law in Split who introduced the multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary concept of cultural zoology and/or cultural animal studies into our community in 1996. In relation to the activist orientation of the animal rights movement, here the emphasis must certainly be on Croatia’s first animal rights organisation – Prijatelji životinja [Animal Friends Croatia] founded in 2001, to be followed by another a year later, by Glas životinja [Animal Voice], which has Christian, or more precisely, pre-Christian inspiration. We have, of course, singled out the distinct role of individuals, such as Hrvoje Nežić and Domagoj Pintarić, who founded Kolektiv Obrana istine [the Truth Defence Collective] at the end of the 1990s, conducting the first anti-speciesism actions in Zagreb and its environs. We include four conversations in the article (with Hrvoje Nežić, Domagoj Pintarić, and representatives of Animal Friends Croatia and Stop Speciesism), hoping also to record directly the activist voice. However, I was unable to speak with members of the Oslobođenje životinja [Animal Liberation] and Veseli vegani [Merry Vegans] organisations, since they are no longer active; or with Animal Voice since I spoke with them in 2007 about the issues encountered by that otherwise unique organisation with its pre-Christian orientation, with outlines of that conversation given in this article.

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