Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 205508 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel |
| PRENOMES | Dinesh Joseph |
| SOBRENOME | Wadiwel |
| ASSINATURA | WADIWEL D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1939-1975 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
La moissonneuse à poulets
Les nouvelles perspectives sur le travail animal mettent en évidence le rôle des non-humains dans la création de valeur. Cependant, parmi ces analyses, peu explorent le rôle de la résistance dans la définition du travail animal et la structure de cette activité au sein des chaînes de valeur. Dans cet essai, j’explore la relation entre le travail animal en régime capitaliste, sa relation avec la résistance et le potentiel offert par la réflexion s…
Caught in the middle? Comparing disability payment restructuring and workfare in Denmark and Australia
This article engages in a dynamic cross-national comparison of neoliberal restructuring in Denmark and Australia in relation to tightened eligibility to disability related income payments and workfare policies which have compelled people with disability into the labour force. Both jurisdictions share characteristics in using work capacity, as assessed by administrative ‘expertise’, to limit eligibility for disability pensions, and divert people i…
Disability, employment and welfare reform
From the poor‐relief tradition to the social citizenship‐based development of the welfare state, the question of available social supports for people with disability has been one of the central issues of welfare reform agendas. Under the increasing influence of neoliberal rationalities, many welfare states have engaged in the redefinition of capacity and incapacity to work in an attempt to manage the fiscal cost of a growing number of people on d…
Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1Shukla PR Skea J Calvo Buendia E et al.Climate change and land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/Date accessed: April 7, 2023Google Scholar and the EAT–Lancet Commission2Willett W Rockström J Loken B et al.Food in the Anthropocene: the…
Animals and Capital
The last two centuries have seen an explosion in the use of animal products for food, and with this, the global industrialisation and intensification of animal agriculture. Animal studies and posthumananities have drawn attention to the ethical issues associated with these developments, highlighting concerns around the welfare and rights of animals, and describing the way in which anthropocentric viewpoints have contributed to the mass exploitati…
Animals, Capitalism, Resistance
Fahim Amir. Being and Swine: The End of Nature (As We Knew It). Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes and Corvin Russell Toronto: Between the Lines, 2020. 228 pp. $24.95 (pb
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
A Handshake between Anthropocentricism and Capitalism
Over the last century there has been an extraordinary expansion in the utilization of animals for food, and with this, the intensification of animal agriculture, with now hundreds of billions of land and sea animals confined within industrial production systems. This expansion expresses both the triumph of a hierarchical anthropocentrism that was inherent within the enlightenment project, and the over-production of commodities as a means to gener…
Restriction, Norm, Umwelt
This essay responds to Chrulew’s “Abnormal Animals” through an examination of the use of restriction and seclusion against people with disability within sites of incarceration. Building on Chrulew’s essay, I observe that Umwelt is a useful tool for conceptualising the institution as a horizon of meaning and intelligibility that closes off other worlds for those who are captive to it. I note the way in which behavioral modification within the inst…
Institutional Violence against People with Disability
International and Australian domestic evidence suggest that the prevalence of violence against people with disability is substantially higher than for the rest of the community. Much of the violence experienced by people with disability in Australia occurs within the purview of a variety of institutions, including group homes, large residential institutions, Australian Disability Enterprises (that is, disability employment facilities), schools, p…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
Chicken Harvesting Machine
Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore the relationship between animal labor under capitalism, its relationship to resistance, and the potential offered by contemplation of resistance to capitalist time. F…
Foucault and Animals
Foucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault’s texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, z…
Disability and torture
Taking into consideration the November 2015 Australian Government Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs final report on violence towards people with disability in institutional and residential settings, this paper explores the framing and epistemology of torture as practised against people with disability in sites of incarceration. Examining Giorgio Agamben’s account of biopolitical sovereignty, this paper considers torture against peop…
Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’
Like One Who is Bringing his Own Hide to Market
This paper explores the commodification of animals, beginning with Marx's description of how value arises within a system of exchange. Drawing from Irigaray, I observe that value in animals is both arrived at through the use value of the animal as a commodity for human consumption and as a form of currency which serves a function in reproducing the value of the "human" itself. Extending this further, I reflect on Derrida's discussion of the metap…
Do Fish Resist
There have been a number of scientific studies on the question of whether fish feel pain. Some have suggested that some fish indeed do feel pain and that this has significant welfare implications (2003). Others have argued that fish do not have the brain development necessary to feel pain. In terms of number of animals killed, the slaughter of sea animals for human consumption significantly exceeds that of any land animals that we use for food, a…
The War against Animals
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…
The Will for Self-Preservation
The Will for Self-Preservation:Locke and Derrida on Dominion, Property and Animals Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (bio) "Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all of whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began" -Melville, Moby Dick (227) Despite the strong growth of animal studies within the academy, fundamental critiques of human utilization of animals remain, arguably, on the margins. Classic …
Zoopolis
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Neoptolemus
This paper explores the Australian government’s 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) intervention into Indigenous communities, conceptualizing it as a form of neoptolemus or ‘new war’. The paper argues that not only violence but also sexuality is central to the modalities of power in neo‐colonial domination. Using Foucault’s notions of ‘biopolitics’ and the discourses of war from Hobbes to Mbembe, we explore the management, surveilla…
The War Against Animals
Human domination of animals has a continuing and catastrophic somatechnic effect across the globe for non-human entities. Utilising recent contemporary continental approaches from Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this article argues that this continuing violence might be positioned within the context of war, sovereignty and biopolitics, where the civil political space hides forms of intense domination of animal life, through apparatuses that …
Lubricative Power
Lubricative Power1 Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (bio) "My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me. There was only one danger- that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints…
Thick hides
Whipping or flogging is synonymous with the convict history of Australia; indeed, in many respects it is deeply sewn into folklore of white Australian identity. But flogging has also been used against Aboriginal people since invasion. Aboriginal people arguably were subject to an exceptional use of flogging: many whippings were administered outside the juridical norms that ordinarily applied to the white convict. This was reinforced by the reintr…
Solidarity, authenticity and anti racism
Anti Racist struggles often aim to construct alliances between groups under the banner of 'solidarity' in order to achieve change. Using Foucault's Society Must be Defended lectures as a basis, this paper interrogates the difficulties associated with creating solidarity in anti racist movements, when conflict and war might be treated as the basis for racial stratifications. Following from this, it is argued that friendships in spite of difference…
Chicken Harvesting Machine
Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore the relationship between animal labor under capitalism, its relationship to resistance, and the potential offered by contemplation of resistance to capitalist time. F…
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Do Fish Resist
There have been a number of scientific studies on the question of whether fish feel pain. Some have suggested that some fish indeed do feel pain and that this has significant welfare implications (2003). Others have argued that fish do not have the brain development necessary to feel pain. In terms of number of animals killed, the slaughter of sea animals for human consumption significantly exceeds that of any land animals that we use for food, a…
Disability and torture
Taking into consideration the November 2015 Australian Government Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs final report on violence towards people with disability in institutional and residential settings, this paper explores the framing and epistemology of torture as practised against people with disability in sites of incarceration. Examining Giorgio Agamben’s account of biopolitical sovereignty, this paper considers torture against peop…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
The Will for Self-Preservation
The Will for Self-Preservation:Locke and Derrida on Dominion, Property and Animals Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (bio) "Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all of whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began" -Melville, Moby Dick (227) Despite the strong growth of animal studies within the academy, fundamental critiques of human utilization of animals remain, arguably, on the margins. Classic …
Neoptolemus
This paper explores the Australian government’s 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) intervention into Indigenous communities, conceptualizing it as a form of neoptolemus or ‘new war’. The paper argues that not only violence but also sexuality is central to the modalities of power in neo‐colonial domination. Using Foucault’s notions of ‘biopolitics’ and the discourses of war from Hobbes to Mbembe, we explore the management, surveilla…
Thick hides
Whipping or flogging is synonymous with the convict history of Australia; indeed, in many respects it is deeply sewn into folklore of white Australian identity. But flogging has also been used against Aboriginal people since invasion. Aboriginal people arguably were subject to an exceptional use of flogging: many whippings were administered outside the juridical norms that ordinarily applied to the white convict. This was reinforced by the reintr…
Animals and Capital
The last two centuries have seen an explosion in the use of animal products for food, and with this, the global industrialisation and intensification of animal agriculture. Animal studies and posthumananities have drawn attention to the ethical issues associated with these developments, highlighting concerns around the welfare and rights of animals, and describing the way in which anthropocentric viewpoints have contributed to the mass exploitati…
Like One Who is Bringing his Own Hide to Market
This paper explores the commodification of animals, beginning with Marx's description of how value arises within a system of exchange. Drawing from Irigaray, I observe that value in animals is both arrived at through the use value of the animal as a commodity for human consumption and as a form of currency which serves a function in reproducing the value of the "human" itself. Extending this further, I reflect on Derrida's discussion of the metap…
The sovereign whip
The sovereign whip
The War Against Animals
Human domination of animals has a continuing and catastrophic somatechnic effect across the globe for non-human entities. Utilising recent contemporary continental approaches from Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this article argues that this continuing violence might be positioned within the context of war, sovereignty and biopolitics, where the civil political space hides forms of intense domination of animal life, through apparatuses that …
Lubricative Power
Lubricative Power1 Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (bio) "My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me. There was only one danger- that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints…
Thick hides
Whipping or flogging is synonymous with the convict history of Australia; indeed, in many respects it is deeply sewn into folklore of white Australian identity. But flogging has also been used against Aboriginal people since invasion. Aboriginal people arguably were subject to an exceptional use of flogging: many whippings were administered outside the juridical norms that ordinarily applied to the white convict. This was reinforced by the reintr…
Solidarity, authenticity and anti racism
Anti Racist struggles often aim to construct alliances between groups under the banner of 'solidarity' in order to achieve change. Using Foucault's Society Must be Defended lectures as a basis, this paper interrogates the difficulties associated with creating solidarity in anti racist movements, when conflict and war might be treated as the basis for racial stratifications. Following from this, it is argued that friendships in spite of difference…
Neoptolemus
This paper explores the Australian government’s 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) intervention into Indigenous communities, conceptualizing it as a form of neoptolemus or ‘new war’. The paper argues that not only violence but also sexuality is central to the modalities of power in neo‐colonial domination. Using Foucault’s notions of ‘biopolitics’ and the discourses of war from Hobbes to Mbembe, we explore the management, surveilla…
Zoopolis
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Will for Self-Preservation
The Will for Self-Preservation:Locke and Derrida on Dominion, Property and Animals Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (bio) "Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all of whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began" -Melville, Moby Dick (227) Despite the strong growth of animal studies within the academy, fundamental critiques of human utilization of animals remain, arguably, on the margins. Classic …
The War against Animals
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…
Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’
Like One Who is Bringing his Own Hide to Market
This paper explores the commodification of animals, beginning with Marx's description of how value arises within a system of exchange. Drawing from Irigaray, I observe that value in animals is both arrived at through the use value of the animal as a commodity for human consumption and as a form of currency which serves a function in reproducing the value of the "human" itself. Extending this further, I reflect on Derrida's discussion of the metap…
Do Fish Resist
There have been a number of scientific studies on the question of whether fish feel pain. Some have suggested that some fish indeed do feel pain and that this has significant welfare implications (2003). Others have argued that fish do not have the brain development necessary to feel pain. In terms of number of animals killed, the slaughter of sea animals for human consumption significantly exceeds that of any land animals that we use for food, a…
Foucault and Animals
Foucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault’s texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, z…
Disability and torture
Taking into consideration the November 2015 Australian Government Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs final report on violence towards people with disability in institutional and residential settings, this paper explores the framing and epistemology of torture as practised against people with disability in sites of incarceration. Examining Giorgio Agamben’s account of biopolitical sovereignty, this paper considers torture against peop…
Institutional Violence against People with Disability
International and Australian domestic evidence suggest that the prevalence of violence against people with disability is substantially higher than for the rest of the community. Much of the violence experienced by people with disability in Australia occurs within the purview of a variety of institutions, including group homes, large residential institutions, Australian Disability Enterprises (that is, disability employment facilities), schools, p…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
Chicken Harvesting Machine
Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping the character of animal labor and the structure of this activity within value chains. In this essay, I explore the relationship between animal labor under capitalism, its relationship to resistance, and the potential offered by contemplation of resistance to capitalist time. F…
Restriction, Norm, Umwelt
This essay responds to Chrulew’s “Abnormal Animals” through an examination of the use of restriction and seclusion against people with disability within sites of incarceration. Building on Chrulew’s essay, I observe that Umwelt is a useful tool for conceptualising the institution as a horizon of meaning and intelligibility that closes off other worlds for those who are captive to it. I note the way in which behavioral modification within the inst…
A Handshake between Anthropocentricism and Capitalism
Over the last century there has been an extraordinary expansion in the utilization of animals for food, and with this, the intensification of animal agriculture, with now hundreds of billions of land and sea animals confined within industrial production systems. This expansion expresses both the triumph of a hierarchical anthropocentrism that was inherent within the enlightenment project, and the over-production of commodities as a means to gener…
Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1Shukla PR Skea J Calvo Buendia E et al.Climate change and land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/Date accessed: April 7, 2023Google Scholar and the EAT–Lancet Commission2Willett W Rockström J Loken B et al.Food in the Anthropocene: the…
Animals and Capital
The last two centuries have seen an explosion in the use of animal products for food, and with this, the global industrialisation and intensification of animal agriculture. Animal studies and posthumananities have drawn attention to the ethical issues associated with these developments, highlighting concerns around the welfare and rights of animals, and describing the way in which anthropocentric viewpoints have contributed to the mass exploitati…
Animals, Capitalism, Resistance
Fahim Amir. Being and Swine: The End of Nature (As We Knew It). Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes and Corvin Russell Toronto: Between the Lines, 2020. 228 pp. $24.95 (pb
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Caught in the middle? Comparing disability payment restructuring and workfare in Denmark and Australia
This article engages in a dynamic cross-national comparison of neoliberal restructuring in Denmark and Australia in relation to tightened eligibility to disability related income payments and workfare policies which have compelled people with disability into the labour force. Both jurisdictions share characteristics in using work capacity, as assessed by administrative ‘expertise’, to limit eligibility for disability pensions, and divert people i…
Disability, employment and welfare reform
From the poor‐relief tradition to the social citizenship‐based development of the welfare state, the question of available social supports for people with disability has been one of the central issues of welfare reform agendas. Under the increasing influence of neoliberal rationalities, many welfare states have engaged in the redefinition of capacity and incapacity to work in an attempt to manage the fiscal cost of a growing number of people on d…
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