User:Pocoecofem/sandbox

Pocoecofem (talk) 00:47, 18 December 2018 (UTC)https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Template:Connected_contributor

Vegan Studies is an academic field, the name coined by Laura Wright, Professor of English at Western Carolina University, in her 2015 work The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror. According to Núria Almiron, Matthew Cole, and Carrie P Freeman, a "common theme in sociological analyses is the role media and communication play in building the public support needed to perpetuate the system of values that justifies what we do to other animals. The proliferation of such analyses within sociology and also the humanities has merited the assertion of an emerging multidisciplinary space of ‘vegan studies’ (Wright, 2015). The term ‘vegan studies’ highlights the oppositional role played by veganism towards ideologies that legitimate oppression and therefore also the ways in which veganism itself may be marginalized, misrepresented or distorted in and by the media." Wright's work in many ways follows Carol J. Adams's foundational feminist vegetarian theoretical text The Sexual Politics of Meat. Of Wright's work, Adams notes that vegan studies explores "the vegan phobic, the vegan deniers, the nonvegan 'vegan,' the problematic 'vegan,' the feminist vegan, the animal activist vegan. Thanks to this work, we now have a new category: the vegan-studies loving vegan."

The field is concerned with reading texts -- literary, film, popular cultural -- in terms of the way that veganism, as identity category and lifestyle choice is reflected in, challenged by, and promoted in contemporary social discourse in the United States and beyond. The sub-discipline of Vegan Studies is a product of the discourse of vegan representation as it is situated within and out-side of extant conceptions of Animal Studies, animal welfare/rights/liberation, and Ecofeminism. In suggesting a field of vegan studies, Wright worked to situate it as at once informed by and divergent from the multifaceted field of Animal Studies, which, in its current incarnation, consists of Critical Animal Studies, Human–Animal Studies, and Posthumanism. Wright worked to show how vegan studies and vegan theory provide a new lens for ecocritical textual analysis.