"Pedaling Resistance examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through a blend of memoir-style recollections and critical engagements with works of cultural and social analysis. Focusing on the intersections among cycling, veganism, animal suffering, environmentalism, class, race, and gender, this essay collection sheds light on themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover some of the larger social and political issues at stake in these activities"--
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 veganismall 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.
