Essays – Page 15 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

A Month of Vegan Research: An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2016October 25, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Barbara McDonald. 2000. "'Once You Know Something, You Can't Not Know It.'Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Animals and Women

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 1, 2016October 25, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan. 1995. Animals and Women: FeministContinue reading

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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018

The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading

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It’s Like, Totally Sexist

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 26, 2016December 30, 2018

In my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights, I argue that the Nonhuman Animal rights movement banks on sexist scripts in the interest of promoting veganism. To this effect, stereotypes are frequently employed toContinue reading

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The Vegan Politics of Taste

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 18, 2016January 26, 2019

Image from BZDogs Psychologists tell us that we eat with our eyes. Sociologists, however, think we eat with our ideologies. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has theorized extensively on the politics of taste. What is good taste?Continue reading

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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019

But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy? Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading

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Could Fat-Shaming and Health-Shaming Encourage Veganism?

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 10, 2016December 16, 2018

Fat-shaming and health-shaming, two popular tactics in the vegan movement. Want to get that beach body? Go vegan. Want to cure yourself of depression, anxiety, diabetes, cancer, or heart disease? Go vegan. Remain nonvegan atContinue reading

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You Won’t Believe This Shocking Whole Foods “Healthcare” Policy

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 5, 2016September 16, 2018

Photo by Jay Janner Cooperation with speciesist industry is a primary tactic for professionalized organizations in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement, despite its dangerous consequences for normalizing a post-speciesist ideology. This strategy concerns meContinue reading

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Do You Know the Most Common Mistake in Animal Activism?

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 30, 2016December 16, 2018

As a social scientist specializing in social movement theory as it applies to the Nonhuman Animal rights movement, I am often dismayed that so many vegan activists consciously dismiss the importance of research in their commitmentContinue reading

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The EU Ban on Cosmetic Testing and the Problem with Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 29, 2016January 18, 2019

The European Union has banned the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals. Good news? Well, sort of. I am curious as to why the cosmetics--often made from the bodies, products, andContinue reading

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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).