Vegan world-making in meat-centric society: the embodied geographies of veganism

Oliver, Catherine

doi:10.1080/14649365.2021.1975164

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“…‘Veganism’ has existed as an organised movement and lifestyle since the 1940s, when Donald Watson and Dorothy Morgan coined the term in Leicester, before founding The Vegan Society the same year (Stewart & Cole, 2020). Although now familiar to many, veganism's definition can be slippery and contentious (Oliver, 2021b, p. 3). Dutkiewicz and Dickstein (2021) advocate a practice‐based definition, while elsewhere White (2018) argues that the radical intention of veganism should be emphasised.…”

Section: Claiming Veganism's Contemporary Surgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Geography, conference sessions have brought together scholars working on vegan geographies, as discussed momentarily, while the first books and edited collections have recently been published (Hodge et al, 2022; Oliver, 2021a). Predating this slightly, journal articles and book chapters have slowly been emerging on vegan geographies (for example, Oliver, 2021b; Sexton et al, 2022; White, 2021). In the next section of this paper, we consider how the establishment of vegan geographies echoes the tensions seen in the social mainstreaming of veganism.…”

Section: Claiming Veganism's Contemporary Surgementioning

confidence: 99%

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Claiming veganism and vegan geographies

Oliver,

Turnbull,

Richardson

2023

Geographical Journal

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A decade ago, veganism was a fringe radical movement. It was also largely absent from the geographical discipline, despite a rich history of vegan scholarship being present in disciplines such as Sociology and Psychology. However, veganism has recently seen a surge in popularity, with more people than ever before becoming vegan for a mixture of animal welfare, environmental, and health‐based reasons. With this mainstreaming, veganism has become contentious and fiercely defended. As veganism has become a growing social and political force, geographers have started to take notice of this previously fringe movement, which is gaining economic, ecological, and cultural power as investment flows into ‘plant‐based’ products and new markets are emerging. In this commentary, we look at how veganism has recently been taken up in Geography via several distinct trends that all stake a claim in defining an emerging geographical sub‐discipline, vegan geographies. We note the importance of scholarly pluralism and attention to establishing geographical sub‐disciplines more broadly.

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Section: Claiming Veganism's Contemporary Surgementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Claiming Veganism's Contemporary Surgementioning

confidence: 99%

Claiming veganism and vegan geographies

Oliver,

Turnbull,

Richardson

2023

Geographical Journal

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“…British social geographer Catherine Oliver conceptualised veganism as a world-making practice and a 'more-than-human approach to caring geographies' (24). She argues that veganism can be seen as an embodied ethics and relationality and she explores how vegans navigate meat-centric societies, overcome existing frictions, and transform social and cultural spaces by 'stretching' their vegan narratives beyond their physical bodies.…”

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Nutritional practices and experiences of people on vegan diet with healthcare system: a qualitative study

Borisova,

Stöckelová,

Ouřadová

et al. 2023

Cent Eur J Public Health

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Objectives: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits of plant-based diets are widely discussed in the media, people who follow these diets may lack professional support in terms of nutritional advice and even access to healthcare. The present study aims to map the nutritional practices and experiences with the healthcare system of people in Czechia who follow vegan diets.Methods: In a qualitative study we conducted semi-structured interviews with twenty-one self-reported adult vegans (14 women and 7 men; 18 with university education) who were on a vegan diet for at least a year. We were specifically interested in their motivation for why and how they became vegans; their everyday diet and eating routines; their use of health care and experiences with medical professionals; their nutritional knowledge and use of supplementation; and their perception of their health and embodiment.Results: The primary motivations for going vegan are ethical, environmental and health-related. Vegans see themselves and their diet as generally healthier, but for this to be true they must spend a considerable amount of time researching nutritional requirements and what dietary supplements they need. To this end, they tend to rely mainly on non-medical sources of information. Because of the lack of acceptance of veganism among primary-care physicians, vegans tend not to seek out medical advice or tell their doctor about their eating habits in order to avoid conflicts and negative experiences.Conclusions: We identified a perceived lack of accessible educational materials and potentially limited access to primary healthcare recommendations for people who eliminate the consumption of animal-based foods. These findings deserve further research and public health risk-mitigation strategies.

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“…Performing veganism can get complicated within groups. Oliver (2021) points out the contentions and construction of virtuousness that has become associated with this mode of eating in particular: "Veganism requires a political and social performance of goodness at different scales -bodily, ethical, and global through the environment -to be reproduced" (10). This performance aspect further complicates identity and meaning-making.…”

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Veg(an) Tales: Vegan Identity Making in the United States

McIntyre

2022

Spr. J. Arts. Humanit. Soc. Sci.

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Approaching veganism through the lens of race and class provides an interesting perspective and alternate understanding of the meaning of the diet and accessibility for marginalized groups in the U.S. and the way U.S. capitalism affects its mainstream construction and value. The anti-hegemonic foundational principles of veganism are the antithesis to the hegemonic foundational principles of United States culture, causing great tensions in the perception of veganism. Attributes of Christianity reproduce and naturalize dominant ideologies that support speciesism and anthropocentrism, which work to normalize the manipulation and exploitation of non-human animal bodies and livelihoods. These tensions manifest in stereotyping as a method of delegitimizing the movements’ deeper purposes, making identity-making complicated. Positing veganism in the current capitalist framework adds another layer of nuance because of the methods in which products are available and marketed; understanding aspects of consumption and the breadth of the economic incentives involved aid in grasping the mainstreaming of veganism and the predominant media representations that center the white experience, resulting in the erasure of other cultural and racial experiences.

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Vegan world-making in meat-centric society: the embodied geographies of veganism

Cited by 16 publications

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Claiming veganism and vegan geographies

Claiming veganism and vegan geographies

Nutritional practices and experiences of people on vegan diet with healthcare system: a qualitative study

Veg(an) Tales: Vegan Identity Making in the United States

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