The eye of the crocodile / Val Plumwood ; edited by Lorraine Shannon.
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 kayaki...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra, ACT, Australia :
Australian National University E Press,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 99 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1922144177 9781922144171 |