Contained: Sites of Animal Confinement

Dinesh Wadiwel is Associate Professor in socio-legal studies and human rights in the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology at The University of Sydney. Dinesh’s research interests include critical animal studies and disability rights. He is author of The War against Animals (Brill 2015), Animals and Capital (Edinburgh UP 2023) and co-editor (with Matthew Chrulew) of Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016). Dinesh is also co-author, with Claire Spivakovsky and Linda Steele, of two research reports for the Australian Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. His essays have appeared in Cultural Studies Review, Angelaki, Political Theory, New Literary History and South Atlantic Quarterly. Dinesh is developing a new research project on animals and the State.