Reviews – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 3, 2020July 8, 2020

Although the nonhuman animal rights movement in the West is frequently framed by activists and remembered by historians as gender-neutral, Donald’s (2020) Women against Cruelty (which examines meeting notes and campaigning documents reaching back toContinue reading

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Review: Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Dr. Corey WrennJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020

Can we realize a liberatory world for humans and other animals without veganism as a baseline? In her second monograph, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft, Aph Ko imagines we might. There is, sadly, a considerable lackContinue reading

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Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020

Photo Credit: Lynda Bell Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019) is the culmination of ten years of research covering four decades of Nonhuman Animal rights claimsmaking producedContinue reading

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Can a Meat Tax Advance Animal Rights?

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 4, 2020January 4, 2020

Vegan activists typically position speciesism as a matter of supply and demand, yet elite control over both our food supply and our government makes “voting with your dollar” a relatively impotent tactic. The problem isContinue reading

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Can Choice Feminism Advance Vegan Politics?

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 13, 2019October 13, 2019

C. Lou Hamilton, Veganism Sex and Politics: Tales of Danger and Pleasure. HammerOn Press, 2019. Hamilton’s Veganism, Sex and Politics offers an approachable feminist spin on modern veganism in the West while tackling the difficultContinue reading

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Vegan Protest is Ritualized, but is it Religious?

Dr. Corey WrennJune 19, 2019June 19, 2019

In my review of For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism in the peer-reviewed journal Social Movement Studies, I consider the appropriateness of author Sarah Pike's argument that religiosity motivates radical anti-speciesism. AlthoughContinue reading

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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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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

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A Month of Vegan Research: An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2016October 25, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Barbara McDonald. 2000. "'Once You Know Something, You Can't Not Know It.'Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Animals and Women

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 1, 2016October 25, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan. 1995. Animals and Women: FeministContinue 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).