Intersections – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Britain’s Rental Pet Policy and What It Means for Nonhuman Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJune 19, 2022June 19, 2022

When I learned that I would be moving to the United Kingdom to start a new position at the University of Kent, the first thing I needed to do was locate a home to rent.Continue reading

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Appropriating Anti-Slavery Abolitionism in Anti-Speciesism Claimsmaking

Dr. Corey WrennMay 23, 2022

Human and nonhuman abolitionist movements, despite their similarities, remain two distinct movements, each with unique social, political, economic, and historical circumstances.

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What Adoption Discrimination Tells Us about Human/Nonhuman Intersections

Dr. Corey WrennMay 15, 2022May 15, 2022

Through primary socialization, humans are taught to understand, engage with, and fill various social roles as necessary for participation in society. Nonhuman Animals living in or around human societies are often folded into this socialization process. Socially constructed identities may be projected onto other animals and this can lead to considerable stigma for humans and other animals alike. The politics of “pet” adoption illustrate this.

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Un-naming the Enslaved: Names, Identity, & Speciesism

Dr. Corey WrennApril 24, 2022April 24, 2022

Names are more than personal identifiers. They are also symbolic representations of personhood. Witholding names from individuals has been an important ideological tool of oppression.

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Activism Amidst COVID-19

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 4, 2020December 4, 2020

On December 2nd, I moderated a panel on UK/US activism in the midst of COVID-19 as co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements.

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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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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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The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 7, 2018January 18, 2019

Food Justice and Prison Abolition The American prison system threatens not only urban communities but extends into rural areas as well. The food justice movement has become increasingly aware of this association and has aligned withContinue reading

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Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 21, 2018December 7, 2018

Postcolonial Ireland entered the 20th century as a newly minted nation-state hoping to establish itself as a legitimate competitor in the capitalist world system. Having been subjugated under colonial animal agriculture for over fourContinue reading

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Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018

In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue reading

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Tag: Intersections

Britain’s Rental Pet Policy and What It Means for Nonhuman Animals

What Adoption Discrimination Tells Us about Human/Nonhuman Intersections

Un-naming the Enslaved: Names, Identity, & Speciesism

Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy

Can Veganism Save the World? This is Hope

The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

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