- Title
- Introduction: Ethical Veganism for More Critical Geographies
- Creator
- White, Richard J.; Véron, Ophélie; Springer, Simon; McGregor, Andrew; Hodge, Paul
- Relation
- Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism p. 1-18
- Publisher
- Lantern Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Veganism as an ethic and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Scholars who examine this theory and phenomenon are usually situated in sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies. The centrality and contested nature of place in the actions and discourse of animal exploitation and liberation, however, suggest an inherently spatial praxis. As an illustration of the former, consider those billions of animals raised on factory farms and killed in slaughterhouses each year. Interrogating the geographies of these places, we can acknowledge how the animals’ lives are contained within private, windowless buildings (that are, therefore, impossible to look into) and are themselves located in relatively peripheral spaces. We may equally consider the millions of animals routinely used for “scientific” experiments on university campuses. Where are these captive animals held? Where do these experiments take place? What quickly becomes clear, of course, is that the impenetrable designs and the concealed, private locations of the factory farm, the slaughterhouse, and the vivisection laboratory are not coincidental. Rather, these realities are entirely deliberate—and absolutely vital if the repertoires of violence that they conceal from public viewing and that inform the animals’ experiences of life and death are to continue.
- Subject
- veganism; ethic; geographies; animals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459817
- Identifier
- uon:45786
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781590566596
- Language
- eng
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