The eye of the crocodile / Val Plumwood ; edited by Lorraine Shannon.

By:

Plumwood, Val [author]

Contributor(s):

Shannon, Lorraine

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2012]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1922144177
9781922144164
1922144169
9781922144171

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

591.5/3 23

LOC classification:

QL758 .P58 2012
QH540.5

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction -- First section : 1. Meeting the predator -- 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stonecountry -- 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock: The parallel universe and the preyperspective -- Second section : 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi -- 5. 'Babe': The tale of the speaking meat -- Third section : 6. Animals and ecology: Towards abetter integration -- 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-based approach to death.

Summary: Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile's jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val's death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val's ideas on death, predation and nature.

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Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile's jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val's death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val's ideas on death, predation and nature.