Critical Perspectives on Veganism [Paperback]

This book examines the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism in contemporary culture and thought. Traditionally a lifestyle located on the margins of western culture, veganism has now been propelled into the mainstream, and as agribusiness grows animal issues are inextricably linked to environmental impact as well as to existing ethical concerns.

This collection connects veganism to a range of topics including gender, sexuality, race, the law and popular culture. It explores how something as basic as ones food choices continue to impact on the cultural, political, and philosophical discourse of the modern day, and asks whether the normalization of veganism strengthens or detracts from the radical impetus of its politics. With a Foreword by Melanie Joy and Jens Tuidor, this book analyzes the mounting prevalence of veganism as it appears in different cultural shifts and asks how veganism might be rethought and re-practised in the twenty-first century.

Foreword: Melanie Joy and Jens Tudier.- Introduction: Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen.- 1. ETHICS, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY.- Veganisms: Robert C. Jones.- Speciesistic Veganism: An Anthropocentric Argument: A.G. Holdier.- Human rights are animal rights: The implications of ethical veganism for human rights: Jeanette Rowley.- Hegel, Eating: Schelling and the Carnivorous Virility of Philosophy: David L. Clark.- 2. AESTHETICS & REPRESENTATION.- Instrumental Intimacies: The Ethical Sounds of Matthew Herberts One Pig: Michael Sloane.- The Compassion Manifesto: Julie Andreyev.- Lives of Their Own: Animal Death and Animal Death in J.M. Coetzees Writings: Parag Kumar Deka.- The Vegan and the Sovereign: Joshua Schuster.- 3. FOOD, MEMORY, HISTORIES.- Are Vegetarians Good Fighters?: World War I and the Rise of Meatless Patriotism: Adam Shprintzen.- Veganism and the Politics of Nostalgia: Jessica L.W. Carey.- Is the Mol³&