Animals & Society

Dr. Wrenn’s full list of essays is available here.

Advancing Veganism in a “Post-Vegan Society”: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory

The Animal Sentience Bill and Animal Nationalism in Post-Brexit Britain

Animalizing Appalachia: A Critical Animal Studies Analysis of Early Sociological Surveys of Southern Appalachia

Are Animal Crackers Vegan?

Are Teddy Bears Vegan? President Roosevelt and the SPCA

Black Veganism and the Animality Politic

Brexit, Dog-knapping, and Otherized Dogs of the EU

Britain’s Rental Pet Policy and What It Means for Nonhuman Animals

Can Veganism Save the World? This is Hope

Can We “Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?”

Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Colonizing England and the Naming of Animals

Explorers Race to the Poles, Animals Lose

The Extraordinary Monks of Skellig Michael and the Human/Nonhuman Boundary in Early Ireland

Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Ghost Stories Tell Us a Lot about Animals in Human Society

Grill Power: Feminism in Men’s Meat Market

Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Is It Ethical to Keep Pets?

Is It Vegan to Eat Mock Meat?

Is Honey Vegan?

Is Sociology Ready to Take Animals Seriously Now?

My Dog is Just a Dog: On Breedism and Ideations of Purity

Pussy Grabs Back: How Feminists Bestialized Politics but Failed Nonhuman Animals

Rebuilding and Reusing Rescue Dogs

New Package, Same Old Problem: Animal Crackers and Veganism

Pandemic Purchasing: Keep Animals Out of Your Shopping Cart

Save the Lambs! Why I Reject Antioch College’s Lethal Lamb-killing Classroom ‘Experiment’

The Only Vegan in the Department: Science, Anti-Veganism, and the Illusion of Objectivity

Vegan Geographies in Ireland

What Adoption Discrimination Tells Us about Human/Nonhuman Intersections

What is Post-Speciesism?

What Sociology Can Tell Us about Empathy for Animals

Why Vegan Sociology?

Zoos as Colonial Legacies of Injustice


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