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Can Veganism Save the World? This is Hope

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 13, 2018December 7, 2018

Although human relationships with the environment grow increasingly of interest to the scientific community, this same community resists a serious consideration of the role that Nonhuman Animals play in human ecology. In the green discourse,Continue reading

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Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 11, 2017January 4, 2019

Covert Capitalism and Western Benevolence A current fad in social justice strategy is the concept of "effective altruism," made popular in vegan circles by wealthy Princeton University professor and "father" of the Nonhuman Animal rightsContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 16, 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. Diane Beers. 2006. For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and LegacyContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 14, 2016August 31, 2020

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals[/caption] The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Nathan Winograd. 2007. Continue reading

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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

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A Month of Vegan Research: The Significance of Animal Suffering

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 10, 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. Elizabeth DeCoux. 2009. "Speaking for the Modern Prometheus: The Significance ofContinue reading

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You Won’t Believe This Shocking Whole Foods “Healthcare” Policy

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 5, 2016September 16, 2018

Photo by Jay Janner Cooperation with speciesist industry is a primary tactic for professionalized organizations in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement, despite its dangerous consequences for normalizing a post-speciesist ideology. This strategy concerns meContinue reading

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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).