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How is Veganism Anticolonial?

From back cover: The colonizer and the animal agriculture industry use the same logic. They identify difference, assert inferiority, and use the asserted inferiority to justify domination. Animal agriculture is colonialism applied to animals. Hunting is organized warfare applied to … Continue reading

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“Veganism” Through the Lens of Decolonization

From back cover: “On a personal note, and speaking as someone who lives a “vegan” lifestyle, many people ask me why did I suddenly decide to change such a big facet of my life. Modernization, industrialization, and colonization aside, the … Continue reading

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Veganism and Mi’kmaw Legends

From back cover: “This text proposes a postcolonial ecofeminist reading of Mi’kmaw legends as the basis for a vegan diet rooted in Indigenous culture. I refer primarily to veganism throughout this work because unlike vegetarianism, it is not only a … Continue reading

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Veganism as Anti-Colonial Praxis: A Collection of Indigenous Vegan Perspectives

From back cover: “Despite the absorption of veganism by the capitalist market – a process that admittingly reinforces pre-existing divisions across class and racial lines – a vegan lifestyle taken to its logical conclusion is fundamentally anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. By … Continue reading

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Kaimangatanga: Māori Perspectives on Veganism and Plant-based Kai

From back cover: ““To adopt a form of veganism – a plant-based lifestyle and ethics – that acknowledges, is based upon, and celebrates Te Ao Māori, is a break from the dominant and from the status quo and but also … Continue reading

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An Obituary for Identity Politics

From back cover: “Rather than taking aim at identity itself and the apparatus maintaining this paradigm, energy is spent tearing one another down, ignoring the complexity of individual uniqueness, and playing the State’s role of defining each other based on … Continue reading

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