The Eye of the Crocodile -

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. The Eye of the Crocodile 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Preface 10 Introduction 12 First section 18 1. Meeting the predator 20 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stonecountry 34 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock:The parallel universe and the preyperspective 46 Second section 58 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi 60 5. ‘Babe’: The tale of the speaking meat 66 Third section 86 6. Animals and ecology: Towards abetter integration 88 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-basedapproach to death 102 Works cited 108

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 natio

Val Plumwood ; Edited By Lorraine Shannon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 97-99).