Pedaling Resistance : Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling

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.

Author: Carol J Adams, Michael D Wise

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Publication Date: May 31, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1682262545

ISBN-13: 9781682262542