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Dr Per-Anders Svärd, PhD

9th July 2008

is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Education, and Social Science at Örebro University, Sweden. A long-time animal rights advocate and social activist, he has been active in the Swedish animal rights movement since the mid-90s, and served as the President and Director of Animal Rights Sweden (Djurens Rätt), Sweden’s largest animal rights organization, between 2003 and 2007. His dissertation in Political Science explored the historical emergence of modern animal welfarist discourse in Swedish politics from the middle of  the nineteenth century to World War II. Footed in Marxist, post-Marxist, and psychoanalytical theory, his research interests centres on the reproduction of speciesist ideology in political discourses.