The war against animals / by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph.

Series:

Critical Animal Studies 3.

Critical animal studies ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human-animal relationships.

Speciesism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. The War against Animals asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and epistemic dimensions. Drawing from Foucault, Spivak and Derrida, The War against Animals argues that our sovereign claim of superiority over other animals is founded on nothing else but violence. Through innovative readings of Locke and Marx, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that property in animals represents a bio-political conquest that aims to secure animals as the “spoils of war.” The goal for pro-animal advocacy must be to challenge this violent sovereignty and recognize animal resistance through forms of counter-conduct and truce.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Introduction / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

1 Bare Life / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

2 Governmentality / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

3 Immunity / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

4 Property and Commodity / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

5 Privatisation and Containment / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

6 Companionship / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

7 Capability / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

8 The Violence of Stupidity / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Conclusion: Truce / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Index / Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-30042-2

OCLC:

910826885

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004300422 DOI