The Routledge handbook of vegan studies / edited by Laura Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Laura, 1970- editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veganism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

This wide-ranging volume explores the tension between the dietary practice of veganism and the manifestation, construction, and representation of a vegan identity in today's society. Emerging in the early 21st century, vegan studies is distinct from more familiar conceptions of "animal studies," an umbrella term for a three-pronged field that gained prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of critical animal studies, human animal studies, and posthumanism. While veganism is a consideration of these modes of inquiry, it is a decidedly different entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies is the must-have reference for the important topics, problems, and key debates in the subject area and is the first of its kind. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is divided into five parts: History of vegan studies Vegan studies in the disciplines Theoretical intersections Contemporary media entanglements Veganism around the world These sections contextualize veganism beyond its status as a dietary choice, situating veganism within broader social, ethical, legal, theoretical, and artistic discourses. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of vegan studies, animal studies, and environmental ethics.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Figures

Tables

List of contributors

Part 1: History and foundational texts

Chapter 1: Framing vegan studies: Vegetarianism, veganism, animal studies, ecofeminism

The history of a paradox

Identity and practice

The three-pronged field of animal studies

Feminism, ecofeminism, and vegan studies

Notes

Works cited

Chapter 2: Pythagoras, Plutarch, Porphyry, and the ancient defense of the vegetarian choice

The sources

Scala Naturae

Lost innocence

Reciprocal relationship

Unhealthiness and unsuitability

Animal sentiency, animal rationality

The sacrifice

Conclusions

Chapter 3: Vegetarian and vegan histories

Locating the usable past

Veg-historical vistas: the future of vegetarianism and veganism's past

Recovery

Vegans and vegetarians of color

Internationalization and translation

Micro- and macro-scale cultural studies

Note

Chapter 4: The analytic philosophers: Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights

Peter Singer and Animal Liberation

Tom Regan and The Case for Animal Rights

Singer's legacy: harm reduction

Regan's legacy: abolitionism and the political turn in animal ethics

Conclusion: animal ethics and vegan studies

Chapter 5: The "posthumanists": Cary Wolfe and Donna Haraway

Defining posthumanism and understanding key tensions

Beyond "the human"? Cary Wolfe and Donna Haraway

Wolfe's Animal Rites and What is Posthumanism?

Haraway: from ethical responsibility to response-ability

Future potentials

Conclusion

Part 2: Vegan studies in the disciplines: humanities.

Chapter 6: Vegan literature for children: Epistemic resistance, agency, and the Anthropocene

Chapter 7: Veganism, ecoethics, and climate change in Margaret Atwood's "MaddAddam" trilogy

Veganism in the era of climate change

Speciesism and apocalyptic thinking in Oryx and Crake

Veganism and survival in The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam

Chapter 8: Vegan Cervantes: Meat consumption and social degradation in Dialogue of the Dogs

Introduction

Aesop and the Picaresque tradition

Plutarch and Cervantes's "gossip dogs"

Cervantes's Dialogue of the Dogs and Plutarch's Moralia

Toward a vegan Cervantes

Animals talk

Dogs are faithful and remember

Dogs make decisions based on their experience

Dogs have feelings

Dogs learn

Dogs do their job well

Dogs contribute to social welfare

Meat consumption, greed, and social corruption

Chapter 9: A quiet riot: Veganism as anti-capitalism and ecofeminist revolt in Han Kang's The Vegetarian

Chapter 10: Causal impotence and veganism: Recent developments and possible ways forward

Complicity and respect

Complicity

Respect

Veganism in a world of causally efficacious consumption

The threshold model

Causal efficacy and the "Why be vegan?" question

Chapter 11: By any means of persuasion necessary: The rhetoric of veganism

Veganism as "new" rhetoric

A brief tour of the vegan rhetoric canon

Further examples of contemporary vegan rhetoric in the academy

An example of vegan rhetoric in the blogosphere

Conclusion: a future of vegan rhetoric

Chapter 12: Veganism and the U.S. legal system

Requesting public records

Challenging ag-gag laws.

Using environmental laws to protect animals

Endangered Species Act

National Environmental Policy Act

Joining legal efforts to protect human rights and the environment

Legislation and ballot initiatives banning various forms of animal cruelty

"Look behind the label"-labeling food appropriately

Advocating for vegans who are incarcerated

Litigating to change animals' legal status

Filing public nuisance lawsuits

Defending vegan activists in the criminal legal system

Chapter 13: Vegan studies in sociology

Precursors to vegan studies in sociology

Adjacent work and institutions

Symbolic interactionism

Culture

Inequality: gender and race

Social movements

Conclusions and future directions

Chapter 14: Psychology and vegan studies

Non-cognitive factors

Motivation

Emotions

Attitudes

Values

Cognitive factors

Perceptions

Beliefs and justifications

Cognitive skills

Interventions

Opportunities and future directions

Chapter 15: Vegan studies and food studies

What is food studies?

The relationship between food studies and vegan studies

Morality, animal rights, and affect

Future directions

Part 3: Vegan studies in the disciplines: religion

Chapter 16: Veganism and Christianity

The Imago Dei and human uniqueness

Animals and the problem of pain

Christians and the antivivisection movement

A note on anachronism

The New Testament and vegan anachronism

A biblical case for Christian veganism

Christian animal theology

Chapter 17: Yes, but is it Kosher?: Varying religio-cultural perspectives on Judaism and Veganism.

The intersection of Jewish studies and vegan studies: literature review

The kosher diet

Are vegan restaurants and certified foods kosher?

Kashrut industry: food for thought in the emerging vegan industry

Religion, culture, and history beyond food

Chapter 18: Veganism, Hinduism, and Jainism in India: A geo-cultural inquiry

From cookbooks to restaurants to e-commerce: tipping points for an Indian vegan culture

Jainism and veganism

Veganism and Gandhi

Cow milk, Hinduism, and vegan feminism

Vrata as vegan rite

Chapter 19: The interface between "identity" and "aspiration": Reading the Buddhist teachings through a vegan lens

Chapter 20: Veganism and Islam

Part 4: Theoretical engagements

Chapter 21: A vegan ecofeminist queer ecological view of ecocriticism: A Costa Rican natureculture walk in literary/environmental studyland

Ecocriticism: The New Critical Idiom

Ecocriticism on the Edge

Chapter 22: Veganism in Critical Animal Studies: Humanist and post-humanist perspectives

Humanist veganism: perspectives from analytic philosophy

Post-humanist veganism: perspectives from continental philosophy

Conclusion: toward an intersectional veganism

Chapter 23: Vegan studies and queer theory

Veganism and gender

Queer vegans

Kinship and affiliation

Failure and utopianism

Chapter 24: "You would betray your own mother for meat": A postcolonial vegan reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions

Postcolonial studies

Nervous Conditions and Shona foodways

Meat, "The Englishness," and disordered eating

Chapter 25: Radical recipe: Veganism as anti-racism.

Introduction: reframing vegan food politics

Cookbooks as case studies

Chefs, educators, healers: Bryant Terry, Luz Calvo, and Catriona Esquibel

Decolonizing diets: food inequities, industrialization, and health disparities

Dismantling whiteness in veganism: subjugated knowledges and racial difference

Spices, song, struggle, and survival: recipes for resistance and empowerment

Conclusion: cultivating an anti-racist vegan praxis

Chapter 26: Vegan studies and gender studies

Gender and vegan studies under capitalism

Gender and veganism: food practices as constant validation

Plural masculinities, vegan feminisms, and hybrid identities

Part 5: Veganism in the media

Chapter 27: Screening veganism: The production, rhetoric, and reception of vegan advocacy films

Getting off the ground: financing the vegan advocacy film

Narrative strategies and visual tactics: from animal other to self and back

"It Just Had to Be Funny": a note on style and affect in the vegan advocacy film

Chapter 28: (Mis)representing veganism in film and television

A polarity of ideal types: vegan and anti-vegan representations

Previous research: hegemonic anti-veganism

The possibility of representing veganism

Year of the Dog: "I'm a vegan now … it's nice to have a word that can describe you"

Beatriz at Dinner: "all your pleasures are built on other's pain"

Chapter 29: Merchandizing veganism1

Chapter 30: "Friends don't let friends eat tofu": A rhetorical analysis of fast food corporation "anti-vegan-options" advertisements

Hardee's "Save the Veggies" campaign

Arby's "friends don't let friends eat tofu"

Discussion

Works cited.

Chapter 31: The vegan myth: The rhetoric of online anti-veganism.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-36458-5

1-000-36460-7