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Animism in Ancient Ireland (Animals in Irish Society, Episode 1)

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 12, 2021March 13, 2021

Ancient Irish practices of animism blurred boundaries between humans, supernatural beings, and other animals. A “cattle” economy, much of Ireland’s superstructure reflected its economic reliance on “dairying” and “raiding.”

Animals in Irish Society

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

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 19, 2020December 19, 2020

Mishka dozing In the UK, the demand for "purebred" dogs and puppies has risen so sharply under COVID that "breeders" are unable to keep up and dog-knapping has skyrocketed. Dogs are literally being stockpiled forContinue reading

Essays

Activism Amidst COVID-19

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 4, 2020December 4, 2020

On December 2nd, I moderated a panel on UK/US activism in the midst of COVID-19 as co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements.

Presentations

Pandemic Purchasing: Keep Animals Out of Your Shopping Cart

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 19, 2020November 19, 2020

Dogs and cats should not be conceived of as lockdown hobbies to be bought online like gardening supplies or musical instruments. They are living persons with interests of their own. Breeding can never be “responsible” so long as we disregard their agency. Nor can it be ethical while so many animals who are hidden from our view are destroyed every day to make way for the new season of designer puppies and kittens.

Essays

Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 3, 2020July 8, 2020

Although the nonhuman animal rights movement in the West is frequently framed by activists and remembered by historians as gender-neutral, Donald’s (2020) Women against Cruelty (which examines meeting notes and campaigning documents reaching back toContinue reading

Essays

Review: Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Dr. Corey WrennJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020

Can we realize a liberatory world for humans and other animals without veganism as a baseline? In her second monograph, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft, Aph Ko imagines we might. There is, sadly, a considerable lackContinue reading

Essays

Is Sociology Ready to Take Animals Seriously Now?

Dr. Corey WrennJune 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Originally published on Everyday Society, British Sociological Association; photo by Jo-Anne McArthur. Since it began to gather momentum at the turn of the 21st century, the sociological study of animals and society has struggled for legitimacy. Although someContinue reading

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Age, Gender, and Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennMay 16, 2020May 16, 2020

In a publication authored with my colleague Alexus Lizardi, Older, Greener, and Wiser: Charting the Experiences of Older Women in the American Vegan Movement, we offer the first exploratory research on an underserved demographic: olderContinue reading

Publications

Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).