Through a Vegan Studies Lens by Laura Wright

Author:Laura Wright [Wright, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948908115
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Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2019-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

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1. A more detailed example is a recently published book of essays titled Cosmopolitan Animals (2015), which opens with the declaration that nonhuman organisms should be viewed alongside humans as experiencing subjects in contemporary contexts. Drawing on the Greek origins of the term “cosmopolitan,” Kaori Nagai asserts in this collection’s introduction that “we have to start by redefining ‘a cosmos’ as a tangled-up ‘knot of species coshaping one another,’ rather than as an orderly ‘good world’” (2).

2. Twine’s research was conducted in the United Kingdom, where poverty and food shortage are comparatively uncommon in relation to developing countries. Such findings may not be true for other regions.

3. Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight the disjuncture between mainstream (white) feminism and the civil rights movement, “intersectionality” objects to approaching rights struggles as singular issues in a “top-down approach” (Crenshaw 167). The term has since been used to show that one must consider how subjects can fall victim to various disadvantages due to ableist, classist, heterosexist, racist, or sexist prejudices.

4. During a conference titled Towards a Vegan Theory hosted by the University of Oxford in May 2016, many delegates returned to two prominent problems. The first was that the movement’s relative youth means that it remains unclear what exactly vegan studies is—or, rather, what it could grow to become. Second, scholars alluded to the dangers of “academic colonisation” in animal rights circles—a potentially ironic observation, given that the event took place at one of the world’s most prestigious universities.

5. In South Africa, the term “coloured” is used to refer to people of mixed ethnic descent—particularly those whose ancestors were South- and Southeast Asian slaves. Even in the post-transitional democracy, such groups mostly embrace this term, viewing it as a source of “mythologised” pride (Wicomb, “Five Afrikaner Texts” 363).

6. Boerewors is an inexpensive form of coiled sausage which evokes references as disparate as Afrikaner nationalism, coloured cultural identity, and (in Wicomb’s fiction) James Joyce’s Ulysses (Driver 101).

7. Roosterbrood is traditional bread made using activated yeast, similar in consistency to sourdough.

8. The gesture also serves to implicitly highlight the mammalian connection between cows and humans: both species only produce milk to feed their young. This fact is often unaddressed by corporatized dairy farms.

9. Driver notes that in Wicomb’s earlier fiction, coloured characters often refer to traditional dishes with the collective term “ons kos” (105; my italics), meaning “our food.”

10. Mercia’s reflection on interconnected species calls to mind earlier acoustic-phonetic effects, such as Jake’s repetition of the phrase “Bu-ullshit” (15–16), or the young Sylvie’s recurring concern that she is known as a “loose goose” (195–97).

11. Earlier in the narrative the protagonist refuses to be called by the nickname Mercy after she learns that the name Mercia refers to an English-speaking region of South Africa that was inhabited by Namaqua people (26). Therefore, it is dubious that Sylvie intends this word to be a fond diminutive.

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