Blog – Page 5 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 14, 2022February 14, 2022

In 2020, I adopted a little white dog who had been rescued from the streets in Bulgaria, a county where stray dogs are still commonplace and "management" solutions tend to be lethal. I know IContinue reading

Essays

The “No-Means-Yes” Rape Trope in PETA Pornography

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 16, 2022January 16, 2022

If the Nonhuman Animal rights movement actively contributes to a culture of domination and violence, it is unclear how this will be effective for animal liberation.

Essays

Is It Vegan to Eat Mock Meats?

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 9, 2022January 9, 2022

If we’re talking about mock meats that strongly resemble the corpses of other animals, okay, this is problematic in the context of a deeply speciesist society. However, if we are talking about chunks of protein that are shaped and flavored and don’t resemble anyone, then these are foods I’m not especially worried about.

Essays

Should Vegans Be Organ Donors?

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 2, 2022January 2, 2022

It is not fair or ethical to punish individuals for structural problems.

Essays

The Nonprofit Bias: Research For Nonprofits By Nonprofits

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 26, 2021December 27, 2021

Until nonprofits provide transparency with regard to what influences their goalsetting and outcome analyses, their research should be considered unreliable and ungeneralizable.

Essays

Collaborating Against Speciesism: The Oxford Group and Social Innovation

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 18, 2021December 18, 2021

In The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights, longtime Nonhuman Animal rights theorist Robert Garner and scholar-activist Yewande Okuleye bring substance to the hazy mythology surrounding the mid-20th century incarnation of Western Nonhuman Animal rights. Admirably, they do so before the knowledges and memories are lost to the ages, as the original members are well into their golden years with some having already passed.

Publications

V-Rated: Sexualization as a Mechanism of Food Justice Depoliticization

Dr. Corey WrennMay 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Veganism is depoliticized by patriarchal practices of sexual objectification and capitalistic practices of commodity fetishism. Sexualization transforms veganism from a mode of resistance into a mode of complicity.

Presentations

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

Dr. Corey WrennMay 12, 2021May 15, 2021

Britain, newly liberated, is now using its independence as a means to establish itself as a socially and economically advanced nation. In such situations, animals are frequently objectified as symbols of this global superiority. Any resulting welfare legislation is likely to support the myth of “Great” Britain, but highly unlikely to fundamentally challenge the state’s entitlement to nonhuman bodies, labour or lives.

Essays

Vegan Geographies in Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 10, 2021April 11, 2021

More than a land of “meat” and potatoes, Ireland exists as a relevant, if overlooked, participant in Western vegan thought.

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).

Subscribe to my newsletter