Elizabeth Cherry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147638 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Cherry |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Cherry |
| ASSINATURA | CHERRY E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Manhattanville College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6617-7229 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Humans, Animals, and the Environment
Humanist sociologists seek to address social problems and create positive social change. Humanist sociology tends to focus on issues of human rights, and thus humanist sociologists must challenge themselves to address issues pertaining to animals and the natural environment. For those who may not yet be convinced of the inherent import of animal and environmental issues, this essay explains how animal exploitation ultimately harms humans, either …
Everyday Resistance
For the Birds
Reviewer: Stefan Bargheer, University of California, Los Angeles With the recent rise of interest in environmental topics within sociology, there have been increasing efforts to move away from global statements about the relationship between nature and society at large and instead study the specific ways in which people engage with the natural world. Elizabeth Cherry’s study of birding in the United States is a major contribution to this trend. I…
Not an Environmentalist
Birding has long been associated with environmental activism, from its origins as a scientific hobby in the nineteenth century to today's citizen scientist birders. My research with birders shows that despite their political activism, personal actions, and ecological beliefs, many disidentify as activists or environmentalists. Using data from 30 in-depth interviews and three years of ethnographic research with birders, I argue their disidentifica…
Birding, Citizen Science, and Wildlife Conservation in Sociological Perspective
Sociological research on wildlife typically looks at how nonhuman animals in the wild are hunted, poached, or captured for entertainment, or how they play a symbolic role in people’s lives. Within sociology, little research exists on how people appreciate nonhuman animals in the wild, and how people contribute to wildlife conservation. I explore birding-related citizen science projects in the US . Citizen science refers to scientific projects car…
"Anthropocentrism in "The Wild
Gender, metal and the media
As a female metal fan, I was excited to read what dwells within the pages of Rosemary Lucy Hill’s book Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music. Metal music and
Christophe Traïni. The Animal Rights Struggle

Culture and Activism
The Pig That Therefore I Am”
How does visual art affect the work of social movements? In her photography series “The Pig That Therefore I Am,” artist Miru Kim photographs her nude body alongside pigs in factory farms and in farm sanctuaries. Using Kim’s photographs, her artist’s statement, and her artist talk from her exhibit opening, I argue that Kim’s work, and several other visual artists’ work, mirrors the work of animal rights activists as they bring to light typically …
Culture and Activism
Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association This book offers a comparison of the animal rights movements in the US and France, drawing on ethnographic and interview material gathered amongst activists in both countries. Investigating the ways in which culture affects the outcomes of the two movements, the author examines its role as a constraining and enabling struc…
Total Liberation
Process Memos
We have created a new teaching tool—process memos—to improve student writing. Process memos are guided reflections submitted with scaffolded assignments that facilitate a written dialogue between students and instructors about the process of writing. Within these memos, students critically assess available teaching tools, discuss their writing processes, pose lingering questions about the assignment, identify weaknesses in their writing, and give…
I Was a Teenage Vegan
Recent research has pointed to the rise of socially conscious consumption and of lifestyle movements or social movements that focus on changing one's everyday lifestyle choices as a form of protest. Much of this research addresses how adults maintain socially conscious consumption practices. Using interviews with youths who are vegan-strict vegetarians who exclude all animal products from their diet and lifestyle-I isolate the factors influencing…
Using Structured Reading Groups to Facilitate Deep Learning
Two significant challenges in teaching college courses are getting students to complete the readings and, beyond that, having them engage in deep reading. We have developed a specific group work format within our courses to facilitate both deep reading and active discussion of course material. Early in the semester, students are assigned to their small groups and a set of rotating group roles: discussion leader, passage master, devil’s advocate, …
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Movements associated with lifestyle and consumption politics have gained increasing visibility in society and in sociological research, but scholars' methodological insights for studying these issues have lagged behind. How might the lifestyles and consumption practices of researchers themselves shape data collection, and how might these movements affect researchers? The authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences condu…
Shifting Symbolic Boundaries
How do activists create cultural change? Scholars have investigated the development and maintenance of collective identities as one avenue for cultural change, but to understand how activists foster change beyond their own movements, we need to look at activists’ strategies for changing their targets’ mindsets and actions. Sociologists need to look at activists’ boundary work to understand both the wide-sweeping goals and strategies that activist…
Veganism as a Cultural Movement
Social movement scholars have long studied actors' mobilization into and continued involvement in social movement organizations. A more recent trend in social movement literature concerns cultural activism that takes place primarily outside of social movement organizations. Here I use the vegan movement to explore modes of participation in such diffuse cultural movements. As with many cultural movements, there are more practicing vegans than ther…
Veganism as a Cultural Movement
Social movement scholars have long studied actors' mobilization into and continued involvement in social movement organizations. A more recent trend in social movement literature concerns cultural activism that takes place primarily outside of social movement organizations. Here I use the vegan movement to explore modes of participation in such diffuse cultural movements. As with many cultural movements, there are more practicing vegans than ther…
Shifting Symbolic Boundaries
How do activists create cultural change? Scholars have investigated the development and maintenance of collective identities as one avenue for cultural change, but to understand how activists foster change beyond their own movements, we need to look at activists’ strategies for changing their targets’ mindsets and actions. Sociologists need to look at activists’ boundary work to understand both the wide-sweeping goals and strategies that activist…
I Was a Teenage Vegan
Recent research has pointed to the rise of socially conscious consumption and of lifestyle movements or social movements that focus on changing one's everyday lifestyle choices as a form of protest. Much of this research addresses how adults maintain socially conscious consumption practices. Using interviews with youths who are vegan-strict vegetarians who exclude all animal products from their diet and lifestyle-I isolate the factors influencing…
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Movements associated with lifestyle and consumption politics have gained increasing visibility in society and in sociological research, but scholars' methodological insights for studying these issues have lagged behind. How might the lifestyles and consumption practices of researchers themselves shape data collection, and how might these movements affect researchers? The authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences condu…
Not an Environmentalist
Birding has long been associated with environmental activism, from its origins as a scientific hobby in the nineteenth century to today's citizen scientist birders. My research with birders shows that despite their political activism, personal actions, and ecological beliefs, many disidentify as activists or environmentalists. Using data from 30 in-depth interviews and three years of ethnographic research with birders, I argue their disidentifica…
Culture and Activism
Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association This book offers a comparison of the animal rights movements in the US and France, drawing on ethnographic and interview material gathered amongst activists in both countries. Investigating the ways in which culture affects the outcomes of the two movements, the author examines its role as a constraining and enabling struc…
Using Structured Reading Groups to Facilitate Deep Learning
Two significant challenges in teaching college courses are getting students to complete the readings and, beyond that, having them engage in deep reading. We have developed a specific group work format within our courses to facilitate both deep reading and active discussion of course material. Early in the semester, students are assigned to their small groups and a set of rotating group roles: discussion leader, passage master, devil’s advocate, …
Everyday Resistance
For the Birds
Reviewer: Stefan Bargheer, University of California, Los Angeles With the recent rise of interest in environmental topics within sociology, there have been increasing efforts to move away from global statements about the relationship between nature and society at large and instead study the specific ways in which people engage with the natural world. Elizabeth Cherry’s study of birding in the United States is a major contribution to this trend. I…
Birding, Citizen Science, and Wildlife Conservation in Sociological Perspective
Sociological research on wildlife typically looks at how nonhuman animals in the wild are hunted, poached, or captured for entertainment, or how they play a symbolic role in people’s lives. Within sociology, little research exists on how people appreciate nonhuman animals in the wild, and how people contribute to wildlife conservation. I explore birding-related citizen science projects in the US . Citizen science refers to scientific projects car…
Gender, metal and the media
As a female metal fan, I was excited to read what dwells within the pages of Rosemary Lucy Hill’s book Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music. Metal music and
Veganism as a Cultural Movement
Social movement scholars have long studied actors' mobilization into and continued involvement in social movement organizations. A more recent trend in social movement literature concerns cultural activism that takes place primarily outside of social movement organizations. Here I use the vegan movement to explore modes of participation in such diffuse cultural movements. As with many cultural movements, there are more practicing vegans than ther…
Shifting Symbolic Boundaries
How do activists create cultural change? Scholars have investigated the development and maintenance of collective identities as one avenue for cultural change, but to understand how activists foster change beyond their own movements, we need to look at activists’ strategies for changing their targets’ mindsets and actions. Sociologists need to look at activists’ boundary work to understand both the wide-sweeping goals and strategies that activist…
Using Structured Reading Groups to Facilitate Deep Learning
Two significant challenges in teaching college courses are getting students to complete the readings and, beyond that, having them engage in deep reading. We have developed a specific group work format within our courses to facilitate both deep reading and active discussion of course material. Early in the semester, students are assigned to their small groups and a set of rotating group roles: discussion leader, passage master, devil’s advocate, …
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Movements associated with lifestyle and consumption politics have gained increasing visibility in society and in sociological research, but scholars' methodological insights for studying these issues have lagged behind. How might the lifestyles and consumption practices of researchers themselves shape data collection, and how might these movements affect researchers? The authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences condu…
Process Memos
We have created a new teaching tool—process memos—to improve student writing. Process memos are guided reflections submitted with scaffolded assignments that facilitate a written dialogue between students and instructors about the process of writing. Within these memos, students critically assess available teaching tools, discuss their writing processes, pose lingering questions about the assignment, identify weaknesses in their writing, and give…
I Was a Teenage Vegan
Recent research has pointed to the rise of socially conscious consumption and of lifestyle movements or social movements that focus on changing one's everyday lifestyle choices as a form of protest. Much of this research addresses how adults maintain socially conscious consumption practices. Using interviews with youths who are vegan-strict vegetarians who exclude all animal products from their diet and lifestyle-I isolate the factors influencing…
Culture and Activism
The Pig That Therefore I Am”
How does visual art affect the work of social movements? In her photography series “The Pig That Therefore I Am,” artist Miru Kim photographs her nude body alongside pigs in factory farms and in farm sanctuaries. Using Kim’s photographs, her artist’s statement, and her artist talk from her exhibit opening, I argue that Kim’s work, and several other visual artists’ work, mirrors the work of animal rights activists as they bring to light typically …
Culture and Activism
Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association This book offers a comparison of the animal rights movements in the US and France, drawing on ethnographic and interview material gathered amongst activists in both countries. Investigating the ways in which culture affects the outcomes of the two movements, the author examines its role as a constraining and enabling struc…
Total Liberation
Gender, metal and the media
As a female metal fan, I was excited to read what dwells within the pages of Rosemary Lucy Hill’s book Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music. Metal music and
Christophe Traïni. The Animal Rights Struggle

Birding, Citizen Science, and Wildlife Conservation in Sociological Perspective
Sociological research on wildlife typically looks at how nonhuman animals in the wild are hunted, poached, or captured for entertainment, or how they play a symbolic role in people’s lives. Within sociology, little research exists on how people appreciate nonhuman animals in the wild, and how people contribute to wildlife conservation. I explore birding-related citizen science projects in the US . Citizen science refers to scientific projects car…
"Anthropocentrism in "The Wild
Not an Environmentalist
Birding has long been associated with environmental activism, from its origins as a scientific hobby in the nineteenth century to today's citizen scientist birders. My research with birders shows that despite their political activism, personal actions, and ecological beliefs, many disidentify as activists or environmentalists. Using data from 30 in-depth interviews and three years of ethnographic research with birders, I argue their disidentifica…
For the Birds
Reviewer: Stefan Bargheer, University of California, Los Angeles With the recent rise of interest in environmental topics within sociology, there have been increasing efforts to move away from global statements about the relationship between nature and society at large and instead study the specific ways in which people engage with the natural world. Elizabeth Cherry’s study of birding in the United States is a major contribution to this trend. I…
Everyday Resistance
Humans, Animals, and the Environment
Humanist sociologists seek to address social problems and create positive social change. Humanist sociology tends to focus on issues of human rights, and thus humanist sociologists must challenge themselves to address issues pertaining to animals and the natural environment. For those who may not yet be convinced of the inherent import of animal and environmental issues, this essay explains how animal exploitation ultimately harms humans, either …
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Environmental ethics (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras)