The geographies of veganism: Exploring the complex entanglements of places, plants, peoples and profits through vegan food practices

Herman, Agatha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-9726 and O'Neill, Kirstie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-9933 2025. The geographies of veganism: Exploring the complex entanglements of places, plants, peoples and profits through vegan food practices. Progress in Environmental Geography 10.1177/27539687241307954

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Abstract

The increasing visibility of veganism and plant-based eating makes it timely for environmental geographers to critically engage with these unfolding debates. In this review, we unpack the complex socio-environmental entanglements of contemporary vegan food practices (VFP), drawing on food geography literatures to reflect on the extent to which veganism can, and does, challenge and transform the hegemonic industrial globalised food system. We consider the productive conversations to be had with sustainability, food sovereignty, food justice and vegetal geographies in: promoting the collective potential of VFP beyond the individualisation of mainstreamed, ‘plant-based’ business-as-usual; re-centring production, hitherto relatively invisible in the hegemonic consideration of veganism as just consumption praxis; and engaging with a ‘multi-elemental’ plant ethics. This offers a cross-pollination of ideas through a focus on the geographies of veganism, which promotes the development of relational, placed and scaled analyses of vegan identities, experiences and practices while also bridging the intradisciplinary silos within environmental geography. Engaging with the geographies of veganism offers a timely and grounded lens to critically interrogate key, contemporary debates around diverse knowledges, sustainability and justice. As such, the alternative ways of doing, being and relating offered by VFP offer real potential for hopeful, responsive and constructive research.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	2753-9687
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 November 2024
Date of Acceptance:	7 November 2024
Last Modified:	17 Jan 2025 13:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174122

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