Associate ProfessorDinesh Wadiwel
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Human animal studies
Summary of opportunity:
Dinesh is an Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies, with a background in social and political theory. He is an expert in human animal studies, and disability rights. He has a background working within civil society organisations, including in anti-poverty and disability rights roles.
Opportunity synopsis:
Research interests
- theories of violence
- critical animal studies
- disability rights
----------Current Research Projects----------
Dinesh's current book project explores the relationship between animals and the State. This builds on his monograph,The War against Animals(Leiden / Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2015). Dinesh has recently been involved in two projects for theRoyal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION(Not yet 100percent certain but) Death of Dog: Between Companion Animal and Beast
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAfro-Indigenous Refusal: Sovereignty and the Black Radical Tradition in Australia and the Black Pacific
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBecoming an Animal Person: Encounters with animals as pathways to transformation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExploring Re-animalisation as an Approach to Multispecies Justice: Insights and Lessons from a Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFailed in Excess: The Incel Subject within Contemporary Sexual Identification
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMultispecies Justice, Retribution, and Love
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSpectra Intra Machina: Cyborgs Clairvoyants and the Conjured Towards a Spectral Materialist Sociology of Posthumous (Non)Presence