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

The Social Psychology of Veganism – Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 20, 2018September 9, 2018

Age (and Time Perception) Matters According to socioemotional selectivity theory, as people age, their social goals shift considerably. For younger people who have a perception that there is much time ahead, they focus on knowledge-relatedContinue reading

Essays

Veganism “At All Costs” Costs Animals

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 9, 2018January 26, 2019

As my academic interests have turned to intersections of human and nonhuman inequality, I've come to recognize that many entanglements of oppression operate unchallenged within social justice spaces themselves. Unfortunately, the Nonhuman Animal rights/vegan movementContinue reading

Essays

The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 7, 2018January 18, 2019

Food Justice and Prison Abolition The American prison system threatens not only urban communities but extends into rural areas as well. The food justice movement has become increasingly aware of this association and has aligned withContinue reading

Essays

What is Intersectionality?

Dr. Corey WrennMay 11, 2018September 9, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlrnRkuNVE&t=207s Mainstream theories of social inequality frequently compartmentalize experiences, but inequality rarely works that way in real life. Instead, individuals are comprised of many different identities at once, and these identities will interact with oneContinue reading

Interviews

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

Publications

The Thug Kitchen Cookbook and the Problem of Vegan Blackface

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 27, 2017January 26, 2019

In 2014, it was revealed that the authors of the Thug Kitchen, a best selling cookbook utilizing basic ingredients, colloquial Black English, and gangster tropes, were white identified. To begin, I believe their intentions were good. Similar toContinue reading

Essays

A Month of Vegan Research: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 30, 2016June 6, 2019

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. David Nibert. 2002. Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation. AnimalContinue reading

Essays

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).