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Tag: Colonialism

Explorers Race to the Poles, Animals Lose

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 20, 2022February 20, 2022

The exploitation of Nonhuman Animals was central to the polar explorations. Nonhuman Animals often comprised their clothing. Countless Nonhuman Animals were killed and rendered, potted, and otherwise preserved for the supplies picked up in nearby ports or donated by advertisers sponsoring the expeditions.

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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
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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.

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The Church and Medieval Ireland (Animals in Irish Society, Episode 2)

The Church and Medieval Ireland (Animals in Irish Society, Episode 2)
Dr. Corey WrennMarch 13, 2021March 13, 2021
The coming of Christianity would significantly alter the role of Nonhuman Animals in early Irish society. At a time of considerable political and economic upheaval, the boundary between human and animal was of critical interest.Continue reading
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Brexit, Dog-knapping, and Otherized Dogs of the EU

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 19, 2020December 19, 2020
Mishka dozing In the UK, the demand for "purebred" dogs and puppies has risen so sharply under COVID that "breeders" are unable to keep up and dog-knapping has skyrocketed. Dogs are literally being stockpiled forContinue reading
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Zoos as Colonial Legacies of Injustice

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 5, 2020March 5, 2020

Although framed as educational family-friendly spaces, “zoos” entail the non-consensual control of vulnerable beings for the pleasure and convenience of humans. Having emerged in modern British society as an extension of the colonial project of dividing, categorising, and rationalising controlled groups, “zoos” are functional in their ability to maintain social inequality.

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Black Veganism and the Animality Politic

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 30, 2019January 30, 2019
Why Animality Matters In Ko & Ko's 2017 publication Aphro-ism, the sisters critique popular applications of intersectionality theory, identifying that what has traditionally been defined as “human” has always been categorized as white, male, andContinue reading
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Vegan Sausage Rolls are Resisting the Brexit

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 6, 2019January 6, 2019
In the United Kingdom, a number of grocery chains ranging from Aldi's to Sainsbury's unveiled a new line of vegan options for the start of 2019. One such chain rolled out a rather unassuming veganContinue reading
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Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 21, 2018December 7, 2018
  Postcolonial Ireland entered the 20th century as a newly minted nation-state hoping to establish itself as a legitimate competitor in the capitalist world system. Having been subjugated under colonial animal agriculture for over fourContinue reading
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Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018
In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue 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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