Dinesh Wadiwel
Biographic Data
| ID | 283529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinesh Wadiwel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadiwel |
| SIGNATURE | WADIWEL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Discipline of Sociology and Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La moissonneuse à poulets: Travail animal, résistance et temps de production
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: A comparative analysis of Australia and Denmark
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…
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…
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050
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…
Restriction, Norm, Umwelt: A Response
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: Recent Legal and Political Developments
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…
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…
Disability and torture: Exception, epistemology and ‘black sites’
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…
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…
Neoptolemus: The governmentality of new race/pleasure wars
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…
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…
The sovereign whip: Flogging, biopolitics and the frictional community
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: 2050
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…
Disability and torture: Exception, epistemology and ‘black sites’
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…
Neoptolemus: The governmentality of new race/pleasure wars
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…
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…
The sovereign whip: Flogging, biopolitics and the frictional community
The sovereign whip: Flogging, biopolitics and the frictional community
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: The governmentality of new race/pleasure wars
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
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…
Disability and torture: Exception, epistemology and ‘black sites’
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: Recent Legal and Political Developments
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…
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: A Response
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…
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…
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050
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: A comparative analysis of Australia and Denmark
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…
La moissonneuse à poulets: Travail animal, résistance et temps de production
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…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Sovereignty (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)