269 research outputs found
Purity and pollution: faith vegans’ categorizations of plant-based foods as pure and animal-derived foods as polluting
Full text linkVeganism has increased exponentially in the UK in recent years and whilst studies have attended to the redefinition of edibility and the adoption of new relationships with foodstuffs, one area that is noticeably absent from academic scholarship is the intersection with religion. Considering the influence that religion has on understandings of edibility, permissibility, and consumption, research gaps emerge pertaining to how religion and veganism come together to reshape the perceptions and categorizations of food types by vegans of faith. This article draws on a sociological study which recruited 12 Muslim vegans, 12 Jewish vegans, and 12 Christian vegans in the UK and conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews, diary methods, and virtual participant observation to gain a holistic understanding of the faith vegan experience. This article’s main finding is a dichotomous categorization of food types by faith vegans, with plant-based foods being seen as pure and animal-derived products being seen as polluting and inedible. Further, these understandings are intertwined with religious ethics, principles, and teachings in order to construct veganism as both God’s ideal diet and correct religious observance, whilst animal consumption is constructed as human greed, weakness, and a violation of what is perceived to be the ethical spirit of religion
Dataset supporting the University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis "Faith veganism: How the ethics, values, and principles of UK-based Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans reshape veganism and religiosity"
No full textDataset supporting the University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis "Faith veganism: How the ethics, values, and principles of UK-based Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans reshape veganism and religiosity".
The data were generated as part of an ESRC-funded PhD studentship exploring the understandings and everyday lived experiences of 'faith vegans' in the UK, as well as the intersection between veganism and religion, specifically Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The data includes interviews, diary methods, and virtual participant observation. The interview transcripts folder includes the interviews with faith vegans (n=36), as well as a document listing answers to a follow up question that were sent to Muslim participants after the interviews (n=1), the diary transcripts folder includes both the diary entries that were submitted as part of the social media-based diary groups (n=8) and the diary entries that were submitted separately and privately (n=6), and the VPO field notes folder includes the field notes from the virtual participant observation calls (n=6).
The data has been deposited at the UK Data Service: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-857252</span
Faith veganism: How the ethics, values, and practices of UK-based Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans reshape veganism and religiosity
No full textVeganism, a philosophy and practice constituting the eschewal of all animal-derived products and forms of animal exploitation, has grown exponentially in the UK over the past decade, including among individuals of faith. This phenomenon has been increasingly studied within social science, but there is one area that is noticeably absent in existing scholarship: how religion intersects with veganism. Given the perceived centrality of animal bodies to Abrahamic religious observance, coupled with potential ethical similarities between veganism and religion as possible guiding forces in an individual’s life, this intersection is pertinent to study. I ask, how are Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans reshaping and redefining veganism and religiosity in late modern Great Britain? I recruited 36 UK-based vegans identifying as either Muslim, Jewish, or Christian, and conducted a multi-modal qualitative methods study in 2021, comprising interviews, diary methods, and virtual participant observation. I then thematically analysed the data, drawing on theories relating to Bourdieusian sociology, reflexive religiosity, and embodied ethics and values. This research reveals that religion and veganism are often mutually constituted, with veganism being understood by faith vegans as an ethical lifestyle that may be incorporated into their religious lifestyles. Religious ethics, values, and principles are reflexively interrogated, enabling participants to bring together faith and veganism. However, for many, religion is non-negotiable, so specific knowledge and support is sought to aid the negotiations that take place around religious practice. Through reflexive religiosity, religious practice becomes veganised, whilst veganism becomes faith based. I develop a series of concepts that help explain the characteristics of faith veganism, such as faith vegan identity, faith vegan community, faith vegan ethics, and faith vegan stewardship, as well as contribute new ways of theorising veganism: as transformative, mobile, reflexive, and more-than-political. Thus, this empirical study offers a new understanding of veganism, one that intersects with and is underpinned by religion, and which I term faith veganism
Using Word Embeddings for Identifying Emotions Relating to the Body in a Neo-Assyrian Corpus
No full textThe supplementary files in this repository accompany the ALP 2023 submission "Using Word Embeddings for Identifying Emotions Relating to the Body in a Neo-Assyrian Corpus" by Ellie Bennett and Aleksi Sahala (University of Helsinki). The paper was presented at the ALP 2023.This research was conducted as part of the project Embodied Emotions: Ancient Mesopotamia and Today, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The PMI-embeddings script was developed with the assistance of the Centre of Excellence Ancient Near Eastern Empires, funded by the Academy of Finland (decision number 352747)
Key Considerations When Designing a Social Media-Based Diary Study
No full textQualitative data collection conducted on social media platforms is a recent methodological innovation with only a handful of studies exploring this approach. Even fewer explore the potential of social media platforms for conducting diary methods. This article highlights the key considerations a researcher must reflect upon when designing a social media-based diary study focused on everyday lived experience. It argues that due consideration must be afforded to the platform choice, design and structure of the diary, ethical considerations, cultural considerations, open communication, and strategies to improve participant engagement. In so doing, the researcher can enhance the quality of their study and gain better insight into their research topic. This article is based on a research study which explored the everyday lived experiences of 36 UK-based faith vegans, and which utilized private Facebook and WhatsApp groups to obtain topic-focused diary data from participants, such as photos of food, reflections on different experiences and events, and group discussions
Faith veganism: how the ethics, values, and practices of UK-based Muslim, Jewish, and Christian vegans reshape veganism and religiosity
No full textAnimal Man: Morrison\u27s Reflection on the Author
No full textGrant Morrison’s Animal Man debuted in DC Comics in 1988. For seven years as its author, Morrison explored themes of animal rights, conservationism, postmodernism, existentialism, and even free will all through their careful deconstruction of the superhero genre. In “Animal Man: Morrison’s Reflection on the author”, Ellie Harwood analyzes major portions of Morrison’s comic to identify their commentary on the relationship between people, animals, and fictional characters, and the moral ramifications of those relationships. Harwood achieves this through identifying the similarities between how Morrison portrays animals in the comic, as well as how they portray their own characters on a meta level, and the fundamental similarities between both parties. This essay primarily focuses on how the exploitation of animals is unequivocally tied to the process behind storytelling itself, and how both play into humanity’s intrinsic, primal desire for violence. By identifying the line Morrison draws between fiction and reality, then blurring it, the text’s moralistic claims become clear
De ombligo a ombligo: Notes on Embodiment and Translation
Full text linkA translation of the poem What will we know by Ellie Epp, translated by Juliana Borrero, with notes by the author and the translator.Traducción del poema What will we know de Ellie Epp acompañado de comentarios de la autora y de la traductora, Juliana Borrero.Traduction du poème What will we know, d'Ellie Epp, accompagnée de remarques de l'auteure et de la traductrice, Juliana Borrero.Tradução do poema What will we know, de Ellie Epp, por Juliana Borrero, com notas da autora e da tradutora
Validating Voices Attune Project
Full text linkThe first of 4 comics produced in collaboration with the UKRI funded Attune project. Work package 3 . The narrative was co - ordinated by Siobhan Hugh Jones , Professor of Psychology Leeds University , Ellie Baker - Arts Psychoptherapist, A team of young people and illustrated and developed by Linda Scot
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