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Vegan Entanglements – A Book Review – Part 3 – Anti-Carceral Veganism

Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 by erasmusresearch

In Part One of this book review we defined the key concepts and highlighted the main issues with carceral veganism and the ‘intersectional entanglements’ that link animal welfare with all other forms of liberation from oppression. In Part Two, we highlighted some of the key chapters, that set out a range of useful examples for […]

Vegan Entanglements – Book Review – Part 2 – The Evidence

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 by erasmusresearch

In the previous blog, we reviewed the key concepts contained within the seminal book Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism. The book starts out by defining the problem of carceral veganism, placing it in its wider context. The core strength of the book is its relentless insistence on the intersectionality and entangled nature of […]

Vegan Entanglements – A Book Review – Part 1. The Problem with Carceral Veganism.

Posted on July 13, 2022July 14, 2022 by erasmusresearch

This paradigm shifting book offers a radical alternative to the populist belief that animal welfare is improved through the expansion of laws that impose carceral sentences on those who abuse or cause harm to animals. This, the contributors of the book argue, is the prevailing orthodoxy among the majority of animal advocates who identify as […]