| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) |
| Series |
Critical animal studies ; volume 3 |
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Critical animal studies ; volume 3.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Speciesism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Speciesism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004300422 |
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9004300414 |
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9789004300415 |
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9789004300422 |
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