Animals & Society

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

Books

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Ireland’s First Colony. New York: SUNY Press.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11301441.

Wrenn, C. L.  2016.  A Rational Approach to Animal Rights:  Extensions in Abolitionist Theory.  London, UK:  Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1057/9781137434654.

Book Chapters

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Nonhuman Animal Rights.” Pp. 148-161, in Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, M. Long, M. Lynch, and P. Stretesky (Ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881136.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Veganism.” Pp. 128-130, in Preconceived: Challenging the Perceptions in Our Lives, Z. Mednick (Ed). Self-published.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Geographies in Ireland.” Pp. 394-406, in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by L. Wright. London: Routledge.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State.” Pp. 201-230, in Animal Oppression and Capitalism, edited by D. Nibert. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Animalizing Appalachia: A Critical Animal Studies Analysis of Early Sociological Surveys of Southern Appalachia.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 29 (2): 145–165. DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.02.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Beehives on the Border: Liminal Humans and Other Animals at Skellig Michael.” Irish Journal of Sociology 29 (2): 137-159. DOI: 10.1177/0791603521999957.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Free-Riders in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism.” Society & Animals 26 (4): 567-591. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341544.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Discriminating Spirits: Cultural Source Theory and the
Human-Nonhuman Boundary
Mortality 25 (3): 348-363. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2019.1622519.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “College Student Literacy of Food Animal Slaughter in the United States.” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 24 (2): 215-228.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “How to Help When It Hurts? Think Systemic.” Animal Studies Journal 7 (1): 149-179.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Pussy Grabs Back. Bestialized Sexual Politics and the Intersectional Failure in the Protest Posters for the 2017 Women’s March.” Feminist Media Studies 19 (6): 803-821. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1465107.

Wrenn, C. L., J. Clark, M. Judge, K. Gilchrist, D. Woodlock, K. Dotson, R. Spanos, and J. Wrenn.  2015.  “The Medicalization of Nonhuman Animal Rights: Frame Contestation and the Exploitation of Disability.” Disability & Society 30 (9): 1307-1327. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1099518.

Wrenn, C. L. 2015. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Exploring Ireland’s Vegan and Vegetarian Foodscape.” Preprint, doi: 10.31235/osf.io/t83yg

Wrenn, C. L.  2014.  “Fifty Shades of Oppression:  Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals.”  Relations:  Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 (1):  135-139.

Book Reviews

Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Human/Nonhuman Urban Ecology in Modernizing Ireland.” Society & Animals Journal. Online first. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10168.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Advancing Veganism in a ‘Post-Vegan Society’: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory.” Society & Animals Journal. Online first. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10160.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Can Choice Feminism Advance Vegan Politics.” Society & Animals 28: 101-104. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-00001962.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Black Veganism and the Animality Politic.” Society & Animals 27: 127-131. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341578.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “The New Sociology of Species and Media: A Review.” Media, Culture & Society 40 (2): 307-310. DOI: 10.1177/0163443717706072.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “Review. Breeze Harper. 2014. Scars: A Black Lesbian
Experience in Rural White New England. Sense Publishers.” Feminist Spaces 3 (1): 124-126.

Wrenn, C. L. 2016. “Review of Our Children and Other Animals.” Between the Species 19(1): 2010-2014.

Conference Presentations

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Teaching Vegan Sociology: Classic Theory.” Animal Advocacy Conference, University of Kent, June 22.

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “What is Vegan Sociology?Total Liberation: The Case for Vegan Sociology. University of Essex. June 1.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Why Should Humanists Care about Animal Rights?” Humanist Association of Ireland. November 30.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Selling Veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan Representation in British Newspapers in 2020.” 2022. International Association of Vegan Sociologists Annual Meeting. October 8.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Animals in Irish Society.Vegan Studies Network Seminar Series. May 25.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Vegan Ecofeminism.” Doing Global Gender, Perspectives on Gender and Re-Globalization, Center for Advanced Studies – EURAC Research. May 5.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “What is Vegan Sociology?On the Pulse Seminar Series, The Vegan Society. April 26.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Vegetarianism and Veganism & Colonial Resistance.” Food History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, Online. February 10.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Gaelic Veganism and Irish Animal Rights.” Talks for a Compassionate Future, Animal Rebellion Ireland, Online. January 18.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “What is Vegan Sociology?.” Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage Seminar Series. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Online. April 9.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Animals and Society: A Canterbury Case Study.” University of Kent. Online. March 20.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Animalizing AppalachiaEnvironmental History Workshop. Online. September 7.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “A Survey of American Sociologists.Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. Online. August 8.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Beehives on the Border of Humanity: The Monks of Skellig MichaelAnimal History Group. London, UK. June 19.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Voices of Guinness: Animal Labour and the Sociology of WorkUniversity of Kent School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research Faculty Seminar. Canterbury, UK. November 14.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland.Decolonising Animals. Christchurch, NZ. July 2.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Animal Spirits and their Gendered Earthly Remains: Summoning Masculinity and
Femininity Norms in the Human-Nonhuman Relations of Ghost Stories.
Animal Remains. Sheffield, UK. April 29.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “Discriminating Spirits: Animals in Ghost Stories and the Human-Nonhuman Boundary.Animals and Us: Research, Policy, and Practice. Windsor, ON. October 13.

Wrenn, C. L. 2018. “The Land of Meat and Potatoes? Animal Agriculture and Veganism in the Irish Discourse.Thinking about Animals. St. Catharines, ON. March 2.

Wrenn, C. L. 2014. “Understanding Oppression: An Intersectional Approach.” Our Collective Struggle: Human and Nonhuman Animals. January 17. London, ON: Western Ontario Vegan Society and University Students’ Council.

Op-Eds

Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Can We ‘Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?’” The Vegan Society, Research News, April 17.

Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Opinion: The Animal Sentience Bill and Animal Nationalism in Post-Brexit BritainThe Vegan Society Research News, March 3.

Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Animal Sentience Bill – A Marketing Ploy or Genuine Progress?University of Kent News Centre, May 13.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Letter from ChairAmerican Sociological Association Animals & Society Section Newsletter, April 27.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Is Sociology Ready to take Animals Seriously Now?British Sociological Association’s Everyday Society, April 16.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “Zoos as Colonial Legacies of Injustice.University of Kent News Centre, March 5.

Wrenn, C. L. 2020. “‘Pets Should Not Be Kept by Humans.University of Kent News Centre, February 6.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Letter from ChairAmerican Sociological Association Animals & Society Section Newsletter, Autumn.

Wrenn, C. L. 2019. “Ghost Stories Tell Us a Lot about Animals in Human SocietyAmerican Sociological Association Animals & Society Section Newsletter, Autumn.

Wrenn, C. L. 2017. “The Disney Nonhuman Princesses.” Sex and Gender News Fall (November): 9-10.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Motivation for No-Kill Shelters.” The Roanoke Times.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Original Cat Ladies.” Pacific Standard.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “The Sociological Perspective on Other Animals.” Everyday Sociology Blog.

Wrenn, C. L. 2013. “Suffragette Cats are the Original Cat Ladies.” Jezebel.

Nibert, D., C. Wrenn, and C. Glasser. 2012. “Animal Exploration.” American Sociological Association Footnotes.


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