Presentations Archives - Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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.

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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.

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Author’s Reception at Monmouth University

Dr. Corey WrennApril 7, 2016May 5, 2016

At an author's reception at Monmouth University on April 6, 2016, I gave a short speech on the purpose of my latest book, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights (available from palgrave.com). I stated that, as anContinue reading

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Successful Defense

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 30, 2016January 30, 2016

This month I successfully defended my dissertation, Professionalization, Factionalism, and Social Movement Success: A Case Study of Nonhuman Animal Rights Mobilization. I am pictured here with my amazing chair Dr. Michael Carolan who specializes in environmental sociologyContinue reading

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Presentation at Monmouth University

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 2, 2015March 8, 2015

Hello! If you are visiting this site following my presentation at Monmouth University on March 2nd, you may access a copy of the powerpoint with full lecture notes by clicking here. Interested in learning moreContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. 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 is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. 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), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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