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. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and epistemic dimensions. 0Drawing from Foucault, Spivak and Derrida, this book argues that our sovereign claim of superiority over other animals is founded on nothing else but violence. Through innovative readings of Locke …
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :The War against Animals / by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel.
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. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and epistemic dimensions. 0Drawing from Foucault, Spivak and Derrida, this book 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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 302 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9004300422, 9004300414, 9789004300415, 9789004300422
- oclc:ocn912238441
- LC Classification:QL85 .W33 2015
- Dewey Decimal:179/.3
Table of Contents
The War against Animals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Live Hang -- PART 1 Biopolitics -- 1 Bare Life -- 2 Governmentality -- PART 2 Conquest -- 3 Immunity -- 4 Property and Commodity -- PART 3 Private Dominion -- 5 Privatisation and Containment -- 6 Companionship -- PART 4 Sovereignty -- 7 Capability -- 8 The Violence of Stupidity -- Conclusion: Truce -- Index
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
Vacuum microelectronics
Gender, ethnicity and employment: non-English speaking background migrant…
Haque, Rowshan
Files & Downloads
-
The War against Animals -- (.pdf)
PDF · 1.2 MB · updated
Rate & Review