Dr Dinesh Wadiwel

Dinesh is a lecturer in human rights and socio-legal studies. He has previously taught in Sociology and Politics at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Dinesh’s research interests include sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal studies. At present he is exploring the way in which non-human animals are constructed within rights discourses, and the possibilities for using contemporary theories of sovereignty to reframe our understanding of violence towards non-humans. The research examines the relationship between non-human life and the political sphere, with the aim of understanding the political dimension of the relationships between humans and non-human animals, and extracting relevant implications for thinking about race, gender and disability.

Dinesh is currently completing a book manuscript for Rodopi Press tentatively titled Animal Sovereignties. He is also co-editor of a proposed volume entitled Foucault and Animals (with Matthew Chrulew) the first volume of its type to bring together work by theorists applying Foucault to understanding human relationships with animals.

Dinesh has 15 years experience working within the non government sector. Between 2002 and 2007 he was employed as Senior Policy Officer at the Council of Social Service of NSW (NCOSS). He has significant experience within the disability rights movement, and was a previous Executive Officer of National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA), the national peak organization representing people from Non English Speaking Backgrounds with disability. Dinesh continues to collaborate with NEDA, working towards rights for migrants and refugees with disability.

Representation

• Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Critical Animal Studies.
• Adjunct Researcher, Social Policy Research Group, University of South Australia.
• Public Member, Telephone Information Services Standards Council (TISSC)

Publications

Book Chapters

• Wadiwel, Dinesh 'Sex and the lubricative ethic' in Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph “‘A Particularly Governmental Form of Warfare’: Palm Island and Australian Sovereignty.” Our Patch: Australian Sovereignties Post 2001. Ed. Suvendrini Perera. Australian Public Intellectual Network 2006.

Research Report / Monograph

• Wadiwel, D and Hayter, C, National Ethnic Disability Alliance 2010. Understanding Communications Consumers from Non English Speaking Backgrounds (NESB), Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Sydney. (ISBN 978-0-9806659-4-9)

Journal Articles

• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “A Human Right to Stupidity.” Borderlands e-Journal. 9.3 (2010)
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “The War on Animals.” Griffith Law Review. 18.2 (2009)
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Solidarity and Anti Racist Politics.” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies 1.2. (2009)
• Tedmanson Deirdre and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “The Governmentality of New Race / Pleasure Wars?” Culture and Organisation 16.1. 7-22. (2009).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Lubricative Power.” Theory and Event 12.4. (2009).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Thick Hides: Whipping, Biopolitics and the Black Soul of Power.” Social Semiotics. 19.1. (2009)
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Three Fragments from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body and Soul in Homer, Plato and Aristotle.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies. IV.1 (2008)
• Arvanitakas, James and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Racists Like Us.” darkmatter. 2 (2008).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Sovereignty, Torture and Blood: Tracing Genealogies and Rethinking Politics.” Borderlands e-Journal. 5.1 (2006).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Animal by Any Other Name? Patterson and Agamben Discuss Animal and Human Life.” Borderlands e-Journal. 3.1 (2004).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “The Sovereign Whip: Flogging, Biopolitics and the Frictional Community.” Voicing Dissent: New Talents 21C, Journal of Australian Studies. 76, 2003. 117-125.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Cows and Sovereignty: Biopolitics and Bare Life.” Borderlands e-Journal. 1.2 (2002).
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Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Tedmanson Deirdre and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “The Governmentality of New Race / Pleasure Wars? Foucault, ‘‘Neoptolemus’ and the NT Emergency.” Foucault: 20 Years On. Refereed Conference Proceedings. University of South Australia. (2009)

Other Publications (Selection)

• Wadiwel, Dinesh, Australian Federation of Disability Organisations, Proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme: Human Rights Analysis. April 2011.
• Hayter, Carrie and Wadiwel, Dinesh. This is My Home: Belonging, Disability, Diversity. National Ethnic Disability Alliance. August 2009.
• Procter, N.G. and Wadiwel, D. “Minimising metabolic syndrome”, Synergy No 3, p.18.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh. “Supported accommodation and disability.” Around the House. Shelter NSW. Dec. 2007. 8.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh. “A Growing Divide: Bus Fare Affordability in Rural and Regional NSW.” YapRap. Youth Action Policy Association. 17.4 2007. 9-11.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh. ‘Transport disadvantage in Aboriginal communities’, NCOSS News. 32.5 2007. 7.
• Wadiwel Dinesh. “NCOSS visits far west NSW: Broken Hill, Lightning Ridge, Walgett & Moree.” NCOSS News. 31.11 2004. 6-7.

Research Conference Presentations (Selection)

• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “The Insect in the Box: Unpicking Freedom and Violence in Haraway's ‘When Species Meet.’ Testing Times: A symposium on the ethics and epistemology of animal experimentation. Macquarie University, September 2011 (Invited Paper).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Cheeky Policy” In And Out Of Place. University of Technology Sydney. December 2010. (Invited paper).
• Tedmanson Deirdre and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “Spare the rod; spoil the child: racialised biopolitics, the innocence of children and the pleasure of sovereignty.” Figuring the Child: Sex, Sexism, Sexuality and Sexualisation. Macquarie University, November 2010 (Invited Paper).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Animal Sovereignties.” Limits of the Human: Philosophical, Historical and Ecological Perspectives. Australian National University. September 2009.
• Cooper, Brian and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “People from NESB with Disability: What does the Data Say?” Towards a New Disability Studies Research Agenda Conference. Disability Studies and Research Centre, University of New South Wales. June 2009.
• Tedmanson Deirdre and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “The Governmentality of New Race / Pleasure Wars? Foucault, ‘‘Neoptolemus’ and the NT Emergency.” Foucault: 20 Years On. University of South Australia. June 2009.
• Tedmanson Deirdre and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph, “The Governmentality of New Race / Pleasure Wars? ‘‘Neoptolemus’ and the NT Emergency.” Neophilia and Organization. 3rd Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (ACSCOS) conference. University of Technology Sydney, November 2008.
• Ramsay, Fleur and Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “The ‘Gift’ of Violence: Captain Cook and Colonial Gift Giving in Tahiti.” Derrida Today Conference. Macquarie University. July 2008.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “The War Against Animals or The Companion Animals Act 1998.” Lex of Somatechnics Symposium. Macquarie University. July 2008 (Invited Paper).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Solidarity, Authenticity and Anti Racist Politics.” Beyond the Neo Con Men Conference. University of Technology Sydney. April 2008. (Invited Paper).
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Not Worth the Three Pfennig of the Bullet”: Biopolitics and Necropower.” Somatechnics Conference, Macquarie University, 2007.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “No escape: Violence and Technologies of Containment.” UnAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Canberra 2006.
• Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. “Governmentality and Violence: Agamben, Biopolitics and the Camp.” The Italian Effect Conference, Sydney University, 2004.