Capitalism – Page 3 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

A Month of Vegan Research: The Political Economy of Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 11, 2016June 8, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Bob Torres. 2006. Making a Killing: The Political Economy of AnimalContinue reading

Essays

Selling Cancer to Beat Cancer? When Nonvegan Foods Go Pink for Profit

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 24, 2016January 4, 2019

Vegan theory acknowledges not only the systematic violence imposed on vulnerable Nonhuman Animals but also the tendency for this oppression to intersect with the suffering of vulnerable humans. One such instance occurs in the pink ribbon "findContinue reading

Essays

Unnecessarily Gendered Vegan Food

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 10, 2016January 26, 2019

"Organic Girl Good Clean Greens," because only women eat organic? Perhaps because it challenges a controlling and hierarchical relationship with the environment, organic consumption and food products are often feminized. Men dominate the environment, forceContinue reading

Essays

Rebuilding and Reusing Rescue Dogs

Dr. Corey WrennMay 22, 2016January 4, 2019

Anti-speciesism theorist Norm Phelps once noted that cat and dog "overpopulation" is a product of capitalism. That is, human society breeds these animals as designer products for purchase. The capitalist system relies on constant productionContinue reading

Essays

What is Post-Speciesism?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 9, 2016September 9, 2018

[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="568"] Photo from Atlantic Hogs, a "free range" institution in Ireland[/caption] Speciesism is institutional discrimination and, to a lesser extent, individual prejudice against Nonhuman Animals based on their species. Speciesism isContinue reading

Essays

Professor Wrenn Interviewed by Feminist Magazine on KPFK radio 90.7 FM

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 23, 2015September 23, 2015

In an interview hosted by Cherise Charleswell and Valecia Phillips, I will be discussing my forthcoming book, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory, as well as how veganism and the Nonhuman Animal rights movementContinue reading

Interviews

Review in Between the Species

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 14, 2015

My review of David Nibert's Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict (Columbia University Press) has been published in Between the Species 18 (1): 112-115.

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).