Blog – Page 21 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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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Author’s Reception at Monmouth University

Dr. Corey WrennApril 7, 2016May 5, 2016

At an author's reception at Monmouth University on April 6, 2016, I gave a short speech on the purpose of my latest book, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights (available from palgrave.com). I stated that, as anContinue reading

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Should We Promote Veganism or Meet People Where They Are?

Dr. Corey WrennApril 6, 2016April 6, 2016

In my research, I have uncovered that many large non-profits in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement spend considerable effort invisibilizing, dismissing, or vilifying radical vegan activism. Consider this Vegan Outreach newsletter excerpt as an example: In theContinue reading

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What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

Dr. Corey WrennApril 4, 2016September 3, 2018

In this essay, I will deconstruct what people really mean when they pull on what Michele Kaplan calls, "The Urgency." The urgency of Nonhuman Animal suffering ("RIGHT NOW!") is exploited as a diversion tactic: no timeContinue reading

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Irish Car Bombs aren’t Cruelty-Free, but Not for the Reasons You Would Expect

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 7, 2016December 21, 2018

Content Warning: Discusses violence against civilians and children in Ireland during The Troubles. As St. Patrick's Day rolls around, I notice the usual sharing of veganized Irish recipes on social media sites. As with many Western countries,Continue reading

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Conserving What Exactly? Anthropocentrism in College Conservation Programs

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 3, 2016March 7, 2016

University conservation programs often entail lethal Nonhuman Animal testing Jonathan Balcombe, director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, has authored a book that explores the “the inner life of fishes”: What aContinue reading

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Can Veganism Save Your Life? I’m Skeptical

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 27, 2016December 7, 2018

Rip Esselstyn, founder of the Engine 2 Diet Perhaps one of the most dangerous trends in Nonhuman Animal rights activism is the relentlessness of bogus health claims made in the name of veganism. Plant-based eating1 Continue reading

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Derren Does Dairy: When Skepticism Fails Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 26, 2016December 16, 2018

Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic known for divulging the secrets of magicians, psychics, and new age charlatans. Folks in Brown's line of work spend a great deal of effort debunking bogusContinue reading

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What is Post-Speciesism?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 9, 2016September 9, 2018

[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="568"] Photo from Atlantic Hogs, a "free range" institution in Ireland[/caption] Speciesism is institutional discrimination and, to a lesser extent, individual prejudice against Nonhuman Animals based on their species. Speciesism isContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. 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 is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. 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), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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