Weganizacja akademii i nowa humanistyka, czyli o weganizmie w kontekście badań literacko-kulturowych
Veganisation of the Academy and the New Humanities: Veganism in the Context of Literary and Cultural Studies

Summary/Abstract: The concepts of “veganisation of the Academy” and “vegan turn” formulated by the author of the text refer to a growing interest of literary and cultural theorists, philosophers and psychologists in veganism perceived both as a practice and philosophy. The essay explores the history of this interest and focuses on its climax marked by the publication of The Vegan Studies Project. Food, Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror by Laura Wright, the monograph which creates the foundations for vegan studies. The essay makes an attempt to grasp the specificity of vegan studies in the context of human-animal studies, ecocriticism and animal rights movements and places it on the map of contemporary humanities, with a special attention paid to the concept of prefigurative humanities proposed by Ewa Domańska. Seen in this light vegan studies emerges not only as a way to read literary and cultural text but also as a platform for a debate about an alternative vision of future.

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