Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling

by Carol J. Adams (Editor), Michael D. Wise (Editor), Marc Bekoff (Foreword by)

Overview

Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys, experiences, and reflections of a dozen vegan cyclists from the United States and beyond.
 
The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health, work, competition, transport, and joy, and the issues of animal suffering, environmentalism, and speciesism inherent in veganism—all through lenses of class, race, gender, and disability. Pedaling Resistance illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610758246
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	05/31/2024
Series:	Food and Foodways
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar, activist, and animal-rights advocate. A distinguished commentator on the ethics of veganism, she earned her master of divinity at Yale University. Her numerous books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Burger, and Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time.
 
Michael D. Wise, a longtime amateur bike racer, is an environmental historian and cultural geographer at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Native Foods, Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies, and many essays on the historical dimensions of food and animal-human relationships in North America.
 

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword: “Vegan Lunch Is on Me” | Marc Bekoff Acknowledgments Introduction: Bikolage | Carol J. Adams and Michael D. Wise 1. The Politics of Inconvenience: Disruption, Power, and Imagination in Cycling and Veganism | Janet O’Shea 2. Stay in Your Lane: The Interconnectedness of Being a Vegan Bike Messenger | Lawson “Frogi” Pruett 3. Caring for the Human Horse: Reflections on Cycling and the Animal Senses | Michael D. Wise 4. How Cycling Led Me to Veganism, Which Changed My Cycling | Amy Rundio 5. Changing Direction | Matthew Calarco 6. Cycling, Noticing, Caring: On Being a Vegan Cyclist in Denmark | Sune Borkfelt 7. Three Wheels, Two Arms, and One Planet: Disabled Vegan Cycling and Eco-ability Consciousness | Kay Inckle 8. “Christ on a Bike, You’re a Dumb Dog” | Naomi Stekelenburg 9. We Live and Ride in Tandem | Geertrui Cazaux 10. Dispelling Myths and Shattering Stereotypes as a Vegan Cyclist in Kansas | Sheri E. Barnes 11. Vegan Black Mama Scholar Cyclist | A. Breeze Harper 12. Start Where You Are and Keep Going | Carol J. Adams Contributors Index