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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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Category: Presentations

Can We “Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?”

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 20, 2022November 20, 2022

The weaponization fo science and naturalism to rank the worth of marginalized groups, dictate their moral worth, and control their lives (usually in highly exploitative ways) is a classic project of Western, white supremacist patriarchal colonial conquest. The entitlement to other living beings, both in reality and symbolically, should be challenged.

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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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Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and sc Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and schlepped through the heat to the beach which was too hot and too busy, so I spent my evening reading radical feminist theory on the roof of my hotel. Some interesting talks today. I keynote tomorrow on my forthcoming book, Vegan Feminism. 🫠☀️
Day one in Barcelona. My third time visiting and s Day one in Barcelona. My third time visiting and still surprised by all the vegans!!! I loaded up on gazpacho 🤤 and fake hams...resisting the instinct to check ingredients, as this market was 100% vegan!
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Dreams come TRUE at the Canterbury vegan market... Dreams come TRUE at the Canterbury vegan market...these are just some of the stalls!
Today is the last day to submit an abstract for ou Today is the last day to submit an abstract for our 6th (!!) annual vegan sociology conference. Be there or be square!

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Foie gras campaigning demonstrates the inherent mi Foie gras campaigning demonstrates the inherent misogyny that undergirds so much of animal advocacy--this needs to change.

https://www.coreyleewrenn.com/sexism-in-animal-advocacy-the-case-of-foie-gras/
I'll be speaking in Ashford tonight on vegan femin I'll be speaking in Ashford tonight on vegan feminism...with Mishka!
If you are in the area, I will be giving an inform If you are in the area, I will be giving an informal talk on my forthcoming book on vegan feminism!
Mishka was born with some disability in their feet Mishka was born with some disability in their feet, long journeys often require a pram, a pouch, or a lil sunbathing in repose (pictured here)
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