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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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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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Atheists and Agnostics Largest ‘Religious’ Demographic in Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennJune 18, 2019June 18, 2019
In my publication with Environmental Values, I explore some interesting, if unintended findings from an earlier survey of nearly 300 American vegans I conducted in March of 2017. When asked to report their religious affiliation,Continue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Free-riding

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 5, 2018October 5, 2018
When people support the need for social change but abstain from helping or participating to avoid the perceived costs and risks involved, this is known as free-riding. As rational actors, non-participants suppose that they willContinue reading
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Trump Veganism? Research Finds a Highly Intersectional American Vegan Movement

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 1, 2017January 11, 2019
Following the explosion of identity politics that culminated in the shocking 2016 presidential win for Donald Trump, I was curious as to whether these wider cultural trends could be related to the vocal resistance toContinue reading
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The Politics of the Pure Vegan Myth

Dr. Corey WrennApril 16, 2017January 18, 2019
Veganism as a Symbol Social movements are not only concerned with identifying a social problem and prescribing solutions, but also with maintaining boundaries. Movements must delineate themselves from the mainstream that has been identified asContinue 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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