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Asceticism and hedonism in research discourses of veg*anism

2008-01-01

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Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the dominance of an ascetic discourse of veg*anism in social research literature, and to relate it to a dominant hierarchical ordering of Western diets (to refer collectively to veganism and vegetarianism). Design/methodology/approach -- A review of the extant social research literature on veg*anism was undertaken in order to discern whether a consisten...

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Literature Corpus work: 7234ef2a-047f-5055-91de-ec2ec8b485f0
DOI: 10.1108/00070700810887176

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