The War against Animals /

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Author / Creator:Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Description:1 online resource (xi, 302 pages)
Language:English
Series:Critical animal studies ; volume 3
Critical animal studies ; volume 3.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907770
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ISBN:9004300422
9004300414
9789004300415
9789004300422
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Wadiwel, Dinesh. War against Animals. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004300415
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004300422