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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Vegan Feminist Sociologist, Writer, and Activist

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Tag: Single-Issue Campaigns

On Moral Relativism and Animal Liberation

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 14, 2017December 30, 2018
White Veganism Intersectionality is a concept that is often rejected in the Nonhuman Animal movement, a problem that is strategically calamitous.  The movement is mostly white-identified, meaning that most leaders and rank-and-file activists fail toContinue reading
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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018
The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading
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PETA & Papa John’s Team Up Against Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJune 30, 2016December 30, 2018
  In 2013, PETA announced that it has been purchasing stock in American pizza chain Papa John's with the hope of leveraging this ownership to influence policy changes. This should concern animal allies, as grants and donationsContinue 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).

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