The Animal Turn S6E6: Social Movement Mobilization and Feminism with Corey Lee Wrenn
In this episode Claudia talks to Corey Lee Wrenn about two concepts that are central to her work in animal studies: social movement mobilization and feminism. They discuss veganism as a social movement as well as some of the ways in which feminism has been sidelined in animal rights’ debates.
Date Recorded: 13 October 2023.
Corey Lee Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. 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), 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).
Featured:
- A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory by Corey Lee Wrenn.
- Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits by Corey Lee Wrenn.
- “Orphans of the left”? by Will Kymlicka.
- Racism as Zoological Witchcraft by Aph Ko.
- Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon.
- Ecofeminism, Second Edition by Carol Adams and Lori Gruen.
- The Revolution will not be funded by Incite.
- International Association of Vegan Sociologists.
- Vegan Feminist Network.
- Plant Based University Campaign.
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