Veganism – Page 6 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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: Race as a “Feeble Matter” in Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 24, 2016June 1, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Harper, B. 2010. "Race as a "Feeble Matter" in Veganism: InterrogatingContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The China Study

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 18, 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. T. Colin Campbell. 2006. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive StudyContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Veganism as a Cultural Movement

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 9, 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. Cherry, E. 2006. "Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach."Continue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Veganphobia

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 8, 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. Cole, M. and K. Morgan. 2011. "Veganphobia: Derogatory Discourses of VeganismContinue 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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The Vegan Politics of Taste

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 18, 2016January 26, 2019

Image from BZDogs Psychologists tell us that we eat with our eyes. Sociologists, however, think we eat with our ideologies. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has theorized extensively on the politics of taste. What is good taste?Continue reading

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Selling Cancer to Beat Cancer? When Nonvegan Foods Go Pink for Profit

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 24, 2016January 4, 2019

Vegan theory acknowledges not only the systematic violence imposed on vulnerable Nonhuman Animals but also the tendency for this oppression to intersect with the suffering of vulnerable humans. One such instance occurs in the pink ribbon "findContinue reading

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White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces

Dr. Corey WrennApril 24, 2016February 8, 2019

A two-part content analysis I began in 2012 has just been published in Societies and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. The first study, published in JAEE examined media diversity in the Nonhuman AnimalContinue reading

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Essay on Incorporating Diversity into Vegan Advocacy published on The Vegan Society

Dr. Corey WrennApril 8, 2016May 5, 2016

I have just published an essay originally authored in 2013 on The Vegan Society's blog. The essay is titled, "In a world of food deserts and many other inequalities, Professor Corey Wrenn gives tips onContinue 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).