[Review] Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel. Animals and Capital. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 328 pp, ISBN 9781399518062.
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: Animals and Capital is a comprehensive analysis of the distinct relationship nonhuman animals have with capital, inviting the reader to rethink the factory farm through the analytic tools of the Marxist theory of value.Being the culmination of over a decade of research and thinking, Animals and Capital provides a framework for analysing industrial animal agriculture within global capitalism as a system of domination.It builds on and expands Wadiwel's earlier work ('Do Fish Resist?'; '"Like One Who is Bringing His Own Hide to Market"; 'Chicken Harvesting Machine'), sections of which are reprinted in the book.Wadiwel acknowledges that this book 'could reasonably be considered the second volume of The War against Animals' (2015) with the caveat that there is no 'unfailing coherence' between these two books (ix).One of the points
Source: Animal studies journal
DOI: 10.14453/asj.1546
Author: Zeynep Gizem Haspolat
Institution: Rice University
Language: English
Topic: Animal Law and Welfare
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405268880