Social Movement Theory

Dr. Wrenn’s full list of essays is available here.

A Critique of Open Rescues

Activism Amidst COVID-19

Advancing Veganism in a “Post-Vegan Society”: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory

Age, Gender, and Veganism

A History of The Vegan Society

Appropriating Anti-Slavery Abolitionism in Anti-Speciesism Claimsmaking

Are Vegans too Open to Free-Riders?

Banning Live Export in Australia

Can a Meat Tax Advance Animal Rights?

Can Flexitarianism Facilitate a Vegan World? Research Suggests Another Agenda

Can We “Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?”

Could Fat-Shaming and Health-Shaming Encourage Veganism?

Eating Vegan vs. Being Vegan: The Vegan Society and Depoliticized Capitalist Campaigning

The Fetishization of “Animal-Friendly” Animal Products

Grill Power: Feminism in Men’s Meat Market

Mainstreaming Veganism: Full Interview with Imagine5

Medicalizing Animal Rights

PETA, Dahmer, and Intersectional Failure

Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

Pussy Grabs Back: How Feminists Bestialized Politics but Failed Nonhuman Animals

Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Rape as an Anti-Speciesism Tactic and the Vegan Male Discourse

Research Challenges the Emotionality of Anti-Speciesist Thought

Science was a Founding Principle of the Vegan Movement

Sexism in Animal Advocacy: The Case of Foie Gras

Shocked or Satiated? Violent Imagery Traumatizes Rather than Motivates Veteran Activists

Society Writings: Veganism Made Real in Print

The Nonprofit Bias: Research For Nonprofits By Nonprofits

The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies

Veganism “At All Costs” Hurts Animals

What Black Lives Matter Can Teach White Vegans

What is Intersectionality?

When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Why are Environmentalists and Animal Activists at an Empasse?

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Factionalism in Animal Rights

Women and Vegan Civil Resistance

World Vegan Month Series 2016: Vegan Research

Muzzling a Movement

Recruiting Strangers and Friends

The History and Legacy of Animal Rights

The Political Economy of Animal Rights

The Significance of Animal Suffering

Veganism as a Cultural Movement

Vegan Protest is Ritualized, but is it Religious?

Why Civil Resistance Works


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