Research Interests
Veganism, Animal Rights, Anthropocentrism, Interconnected Human/Nonhuman Oppressions, Social Movement Communication, Discourse

Biography

Louis Gough is a PhD researcher and associate lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England (UWE). His research concerns the communication strategies of the vegan social movement with a focus on subverting anthropocentrism – understood as the hegemonic ideology undergirding interconnected nonhuman and human oppressions. Louis is a qualitative researcher conducting desk-based critical discourse analyses with the hope of facilitating the production of anti-anthropocentric vegan advocacy campaigns and underscoring veganism’s capacity in this connection.

Key Publications

• Gough, Louis Arthur. 2024. “Veganism as Anti-Anthropocentrism: The Potential of Vegan Advocacy Discourse.” Animal Ethics Review. Vol. 4.
• Gough, Louis Arthur. 2023. “Veganism’s Anti-Anthropocentric Capacity: A Critical Analysis of the Advocacy Discourse of Three Prominent Vegan Organisations“. Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. 11 (1): 9-28.

Student supervision

Not yet considering student supervision.

Contact

Louis.Gough@uwe.ac.uk