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An office of ethics: meetings, roles, and moral enthusiasm in animal protection
Author(s) -
Reed Adam
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the royal anthropological institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1467-9655
pISSN - 1359-0987
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9655.12601
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , professionalization , environmental ethics , political science , engineering ethics , public relations , sociology , law , psychology , social psychology , engineering , philosophy
This essay explores the relationship between meetings and organizational ethics in an animal protection charity in Scotland. Here, recent ‘professionalization’ has seen the late introduction of an ‘ethics of office’ and accompanying impersonalization of roles. A consequent struggle emerges over what the relationship should be between the core message of the organization, as an office of animal ethics, and the ‘personal’ principles or ethical commitment of individual staff members. All of this comes to a head when persons, and office‐holders, meet.