Vegetarianism and Science Fiction

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
Author: Joshua Bulleid
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031383478

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy, as well as how the genres' engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy. Author Joshua Bulleid examines the representation of vegetarianism in the works of major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts, tracing the development of vegetarian trends and their science fictional representations from the early-nineteenth century to the present day.

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction
Author: Zachary Kendal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 303027893X

Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.

Reading Veganism

Reading Veganism
Author: Emelia Quinn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019265540X

Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the 'human,' the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted. Reading Veganism proposes that we can recognise and identify the monstrous vegan in relation to four key traits. First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman animal parts, destabilising existing taxonomical classifications. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation. The principle contention of the book is that understandings of veganism, as identity and practice, are limited without a consideration of multiplicity, provisionality, failure, and insufficiency within vegan definition and lived practice. Veganism's association with positivity, in its drive for health and purity, is countered by a necessary and productive negativity generated by a recognition of the horrors of the modern world. Vegan monsters rehearse the key paradoxes involved in the writing of vegan identity.

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
Author: Theophilus Savvas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009287257

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century re-assesses both canonical and lesser well-known literary texts to illuminate how vegetarianism and veganism can be understood as literary phenomena, as well as dietary and cultural practises. It offers a broad historical span ranging from ancient thinkers and writers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary novelists, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. The expansive historical scope is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises that the philosophy behind these diets has developed through a dialogic relationship between east and west. The book demonstrates, also, the way in which carnivorism has functioned as an ideology, one which has underpinned actions harmful to both human and non-human animals.

Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today

Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today
Author: Karen Iacobbo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 031307190X

Vegetarianism is not a diet trend, or the flavor of the month. Instead, it is a philosophy and practice with roots in antiquity. Vegetarianism has existed for centuries in much of the world as a social movement and subculture. In the United States, this subculture has existed for more than 200 years. In this book, the Iacobbos bring this thriving subculture to life. By examining its businesses, organizations, events, scholarship, and influence on the arts, and by interviewing dozens of vegetarians and vegans, the authors reveal a subculture whose members hold a variety of perspectives on everything from animal rights to advocacy, politics, and religion. Building upon their previous book, a history of vegetarianism, the Iacobbos delve into its current incarnations. They include information on the food industry, health studies on the benefits of vegetarians and vegan ways of eating, the popularity of vegetarianism, and the backlash against it. They highlight the work of vegetarian advocates and provide a glimpse of the stores, magazines, restaurants, and organizations that bring this subculture together. Finally, they include projections for the future from vegetarians, environmentalists, lawyers, nutritionists, economists, and experts in animal rights.

Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism
Author: Bodhipaksa
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1909314749

How does what we eat affect us and our world? Is there a connection between vegetarianism and living a spiritual life? A trained vet, respected teacher and happy vegan, Bodhipaksa answers all of these questions and more. He takes a positive view of the benefits of vegetarianism, and shows practically how to maintain a healthy and balanced vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. This exploration shows how a meat-free life can not only lighten the body but also the soul.

Vegetarian Times

Vegetarian Times
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1989-12
Genre:
ISBN:

To do what no other magazine does: Deliver simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information, that's exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that's inviting to all. Because while vegetarians are a great, vital, passionate niche, their healthy way of eating and the earth-friendly values it inspires appeals to an increasingly large group of Americans. VT's goal: To embrace both.

Beware of Vegetarian Sharks

Beware of Vegetarian Sharks
Author: Richard Greeman
Publisher: Richard Greeman
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2009-09-11
Genre: Capitalism
ISBN: 1430323078

This illustrated collection of Greeman's Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays is a frontal attack on capitalism by a veteran socialist, scholar and activist. Greeman's satirical studies, which range from the Rebellious Sixties to our Decadent Decade, deal with globalized capitalism's crisis, revolutionary history and future prospects for a new society. Some titles: The Rolling Revolutions of 2011, Capitalism's Terminal Crisis? Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear? The Invisible International, Deconstructing the 'Threat' of Radical Islam, Religion and Repression in the U.S. (a Case of Political Pathology) Back in the U.S.S.R. Victor Serge and Ecotopia: A Bet You Can't Refuse.