Any smart folk want to write a paper/essay on veganism?
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Food for Thought: New Critical Perspectives on Veganism and Meat Consumption
Call for Papers Date: 2015-06-01
Date Submitted: 2015-02-26
Announcement ID: 220760
This edited collection will re-examine the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism. In recent years, a burgeoning array of vegan cookbooks—The Joy of Vegan Baking, How it all Vegan!, Sinfully Vegan—havedeparted from earlier stereotypes of healthy but unappealing vegetarian food to emphasise pleasure and taste as key components of a diet free from animal products. Contemporary popular culture offers up humorous representations of vegans, such as those in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and David Agranoff’s The Vegan Revolution…with Zombies.At the same time, concern over the environmental impact of meat consumption is leading many omnivores to also consume meat-free meals. A wider range and increased availability of commercial meat and dairy substitutes make a vegan diet easier to adopt; however, this shift is also consolidating vegans as a new market category. PETA, of course, is responsible for making veganism as sexy as any other product that corporate America wants us to buy.
The question then becomes, How might we approach the mounting prevalence of veganism as it appears in different spheres of the culture built upon what Melanie Joy calls “carnism”? Does the trend towards normalization strengthen or detract from the radical impetus of veganism as a politics? Further, how might the ethical or political aspects of veganism interact with the sensory or affective elements of becoming vegan? The temporality of veganism is important to consider in this regard. For example, would veganism as a consumer category be rendered obsolete in the future if the in vitro hamburger that was presented to the world in 2013 could feasibly be re-produced commercially on a mass scale? How might the vegan consumer respond to this new development if it means that veganism could be irrelevant for the future of food? Despite this potential challenge to veganism as a radical category, animal-free diets and lifestyles appear to proliferate. This collection addresses these cultural shifts and asks how veganism might be rethought and re-practised in the twenty-first century.
Abstracts of 250-350 words are sought by June 1st, 2015, for papers exploring new critical approaches to consuming and not consuming animal products, including but not limited to papers addressing:
Veganism and ethics in the twenty-first century:
—veganism as a normative practice
—scientific discourses about meat, soy products or vegetarian diets, and in vitro meat
—discourses of nature and civilization in relation to meat or vegetarianism
—global food crises, food futures and vegetarianism
—digital culture
Veganism and identity:
—meat consumption and nationalism
—Indigeneity
—sexuality and meat (non)consumption
—Carnism
—consumerism
—eco-feminism
—class, cultural capital, and vegetarianism
—vegetarian practices in non-western contexts
Veganism and embodied experience:
—tastes and textures of vegetarian cuisine
—the “sensual turn” in vegetarian food
—disgust
—purity and contamination
—hospitality
—community
New practices of meat (non)consumption:
—flexitarianism
—“Meatless Mondays”
—vegetarian food and cross-cultural consumption
—development of vegan product lines (vegans as a consumer class)
Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen, co-editors
UBC-Okanagan and Western University
Email: vegan.studies.cfp@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://https://www.facebook.com/VeganStudiesCFP
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