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Animals in Irish society : interspecies oppression and vegan liberation in Britain's first colony / Corey Lee Wrenn.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wrenn, Corey Lee, 1983- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Animal rights--Ireland.
Animal rights.
Animals--Social aspects--Ireland.
Animals.
Veganism--Social aspects--Ireland.
Veganism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Summary:
The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Anti-speciesism Efforts in Ireland
Introduction
The Case for Irish Animal Studies
Food and Protest
Irish Animal Rights
Vegan Intersectionality as a Guiding Perspective
Critical Animal Studies
Methodology
Conclusion
Chapter 1 Celticism, Christianity, and Animism in Gaelic Ireland
Relationships with Free-Living Animals
Relationships with Domesticated Animals
Precolonial Food Systems
"Meat"
Dairy
Plants, Grains, and Forage
Food Magic
The Impact of Christianity on Irish Human-Nonhuman Relationships
Witches, Faeries, and Other Boundary-Crossers
Chapter 2 Human and Nonhuman Relationships under British Colonization
Changing Diets and Identity under Imperialism
Food for the Empire
Constructing Racial Difference
Foodways in Colonial Ireland
The Problematic Potato
Animality and the Legacy of Famine
Contested Humanity in Asylums
Animalizing the Irish
The Importation of New Speciesisms
Irish Breeding
British Exhibitions
Sport and Subjugation
Independence
Chapter 3 Activism for Other Animals in Ireland, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Irish Contributions to the Anti-cruelty Crusade
Irish Vegetarianism
Irish Vegetarians Organize
The Irish Response to Vivisection
Irish Barbarians in Nineteenth Century America
Chapter 4 Modern Activism for Other Animals in Ireland
Irish Veganism of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Animal Activism and Civil Rights
Conflicts with Travellers in Settled Ireland
Animal Nationalism
Human-Nonhuman Boundaries in Long Kesh
Anti-speciesist Activism in the Twenty-first Century
Anti-speciesism and the Irish State
Conclusion.
Chapter 5 Nonhuman Animal Welfare and Irish Food Sovereignty
Feeding Independence
Ireland Enters the World System
Loving Ireland, Buying Local
Greenwashing Speciesism
Animal Agriculture and Sustainability Politics
Post-speciesism
Emerging Vegetarianism and Veganism in Modern Ireland
Conclusion Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Global Era
Animality in Irish Society
Entangled Oppressions
Irish Vegan Ethics
Looking Forward
Ireland International
New Movements
Final Thoughts
Notes
Works Cited
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:
9781438484365
1438484364
OCLC:
1258217692

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