S6E6: Social Movement Mobilization and Feminism with Corey Lee Wrenn

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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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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. A bit about Cory (00:04:50)

3. The Success of Veganism as a Social Movement (00:11:50)

4. Sidelining Animals in Social Movements (00:18:33)

5. Intersectionality, Feminism, and the Animal Rights Movement (00:23:13)

6. Undermining and Infighting in Social Movements (00:31:52)

7. Flexitarianism and Incremental Change (00:38:04)

8. Capitalist Systems and Alienation (00:42:58)

9. Quote (Cory Lee Wrenn) (00:49:59)

10. Animal Highlight: Brown Dog (00:59:09)

11. Credits (01:13:23)