Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK national newspapers
Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK national newspapers
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-4446.2010.01348.x
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Morgan, Karen
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作者：
Cole, Matthew;Morgan, Karen
本文批判性地考察了2007年英国全国性报纸中有关素食主义的话语。在设定可以和不能轻易讨论的内容的参数时，主导话语也有助于建立理解框架。因此，与素食主义有关的话语被认为是违反常识的，因为它们不属于容易理解的吃肉话语。报纸倾向于通过嘲讽来诋毁纯素食主义，或者认为在实践中很难或不可能维持。素食主义者被刻板印象为禁欲主义者、狂热分子、多愁善感的人，或者在某些情况下，是敌对的极端分子。总体效果是对素食主义者和素食主义的贬损描述，我们将其解释为“素食恐惧症”。我们将英国全国性报纸中关于纯素食主义的贬损话语解读为物种主义文化复制的证据，通过这种文化再现，纯素主义与有关非人类动物权利或解放的辩论脱节。这在三个相互关联的方面存在问题。首先，它在经验上歪曲了纯素食主义的经验，从而边缘化了纯素食主义者。其次，它对杂食性读者造成了永久的精神伤害，他们没有机会理解素食主义及其所包含的对物种主义的挑战。第三，也是最严重的，它掩盖了人类和非人类动物之间的剥削性和暴力关系，从而再现了它们之间的关系。
This paper critically examines discourses of veganism in UK national newspapers in 2007. In setting parameters for what can and cannot easily be discussed, dominant discourses also help frame understanding. Discourses relating to veganism are therefore presented as contravening commonsense, because they fall outside readily understood meat-eating discourses. Newspapers tend to discredit veganism through ridicule, or as being difficult or impossible to maintain in practice. Vegans are variously stereotyped as ascetics, faddists, sentimentalists, or in some cases, hostile extremists. The overall effect is of a derogatory portrayal of vegans and veganism that we interpret as 'vegaphobia'. We interpret derogatory discourses of veganism in UK national newspapers as evidence of the cultural reproduction of speciesism, through which veganism is dissociated from its connection with debates concerning nonhuman animals' rights or liberation. This is problematic in three, interrelated, respects. First, it empirically misrepresents the experience of veganism, and thereby marginalizes vegans. Second, it perpetuates a moral injury to omnivorous readers who are not presented with the opportunity to understand veganism and the challenge to speciesism that it contains. Third, and most seriously, it obscures and thereby reproduces exploitative and violent relations between human and nonhuman animals.