Val Plumwood
Val Plumwood (1939 - 2008) was a pioneering ecofeminist philosopher and activist.
Val Plumwood was born Val Morrell on August 11, 1939 on a poultry farm near Sydney. She studied philosophy at the University of Sydney and postgraduate logic at the University of New England. Val married John Macrae in 1958. She had two children, John and Caitlin.
In the 1970s, Val and her second husband Richard Routely moved to Plumwood Mountain, co-authoring the seminal book Fight for the Forests and engaging in anti-logging activism from the 1970s onwards. In 1985, Val survived a crocodile attack while kayaking in Kakadu National Park, transforming and widely publicising her more-than-human ethics.
Val received her PhD from the Australian National University in 1990, publishing her thesis into the now-classic book, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Her 2002 book, Environmental Culture, expanded her ecofeminist critique of anthropocentrism and the dualist logic connecting feminist, environmentalist, and decolonial struggles. Across her career, Val taught philosophy in a number of Australian universities and lectured internationally, including in the USA, Germany, Finland, Spain, Canada, Indonesia, Korea, Slovenia, and the UK.
Val died from a stroke on the 29th February 2008 and was laid to rest in an eco-burial in her garden on Plumwood Mountain, concretising her philosophical commitments to situate humans within ecological terms and the foodweb. In 2012, friends posthumously published a manuscript that she was working on at the time of her death as the Eye of the Crocodile.
While Val’s formidable thought survives in her four books and over 100 papers: her expansive gardens, stone house, library, and ecological activism pay homage to her lifelong commitment to embodied practice. She remains considered one of the world’s pre-eminent ecofeminist philosophers.
Texts by Val Plumwood
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Papers of Val Plumwood at the ANU Butlin Archive: https://archivescollection.anu.edu.au/index.php/plumwood-val
Val Plumwood Library - digital catalogue: peruse over 2,000 publications from Val Plumwood’s personal collection here.
Val Plumwood Collection at the National Museum of Australia: https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/collection/highlights/val-plumwood-canoe
Richard Sylvan Papers at the University of Queensland: https://manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au/index.php/uqfl291
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Plumwood, V. (2012). The Eye of the Crocodile (L. Shannon, Ed.). Canberra: ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/EC.11.2012
Plumwood, V. (2002). Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. London ; New York : Routledge. http://archive.org/details/environmentalcul0000plum
Plumwood, V. (1993). Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London ; New York : Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203006757
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1975). The Fight For The Forests: The Takeover Of Australian Forests For Pines, Wood Chips And Intensive Forestry. Canberra: Australian National University. https://www.lostknowledgebookshop.com.au/product/the-fight-for-the-forests-the-takeover-of-australian-forests-for-pines-wood-chips-and-intensive-forestry-by-r-and-v-routley-australian-national-university-1975/
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Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1977). Destructive Forestry in Australia and Melanesia. In The Melanesian Environment J. Winslow (ed.), ANU Press, Canberra, 374-397.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1978). Against the Inevitability of Human Chauvinism. In Ethics and the Problems of the 21st Century K.E. Goodpaster and K.M. Sayre, (eds.), Notre Dame University Press, South Bend, Indiana.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1979). Some Ethical Aspects of Energy Choice", in Energy and People: Social Implications of Different Energy Futures, M. Diesendorf, (ed) Society for Social Responsibility in Science, Canberra.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1979). Against the Inevitability of Human Chauvinism. In K. E. Goodpaster & K. M. Sayre (Eds.), Ethics and problems of the 21st century. University of Notre Dame Press. https://iseethics.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/routley-richard-and-val-against-the-inevitability-of-human-chauvinism.pdf
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1980a). Human Chauvinism and Environmental Ethics. In Environmental Philosophy, ed. M. Mannison, M. McRobbie & R. Routley, Department of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 96-190.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1980b). Social Theories, Self Management, and Environmental Problems. In D. S. Mannison, M. A. McRobbie, & R. Sylvan (Eds.), Environmental Philosophy (pp. 217–332). Dept. Of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. https://philpapers.org/rec/ROUSTS
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1980c). Nuclear Energy and Obligations to the Future. In What Do We Owe Posterity?, [actually, Responsibilities to Future Generations: Environmental Ethics] E. Partridge (ed.), Prometheus Books. (Revised version of 1978 article.)
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1980d). Joint Chapters in R. Routley's Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond: an investigation of noneism and the theory of items. Department of Philosophy Monograph Series no3, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1980 1033p.
Plumwood, V. (1982). The Ethics of Nuclear Power. In And Justice For All. D. Van Der Veer and T. Regan, (eds.), Rowman and Littlefield. Reprinted in Peg Tittle 2000 ed. Ethical Issues in Business Broadview Press Ontario CA, pp 165-191.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1982a). Negation and Contradiction in Later Wittgenstein. In Language and Ontology W. Leinfellner and others, (eds.), Verlag Holder-Pichter-Tempsky, pp.471 - 493.
Plumwood, V., & Routley, R. (1982b). The Inadequacy of the Actual and the Real: Beyond Empiricism, Idealism and Mysticism. In W. Leinfellner (Ed.), Language and Ontology. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky / Reidel. https://philpapers.org/rec/PLUTIO
Routley, R., Plumwood, V., Meyer, R. K., & Brady, R. T. (1982). Relevant logics and their rivals. In R. Sylvan & R. Brady (Eds.), Relevant Logics and Their Rivals.Ridgeview. https://philpapers.org/rec/ROUVT
Routley, R. & Plumwood, V. (1986). The “Fight for the Forests” affair. In B. Martin, C. M. Barker, C. Manwell, & C. Pugh (Eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Respones (pp. 70–73). Angus & Robertson. https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/86is/RoutleyPlumwood.html
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1989). Moral Dilemmas and the Logic of Deontic Notions. In G. Priest, R. Routley, & J. Norman (Eds.), Paraconsistent Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent (pp. 653–702). Philosophia Verlag. https://www.abebooks.com/9783884050583/Paraconsistent-Logic-Essays-Inconsistent-Analytica-3884050583/plp
Plumwood, V. (1982). Nuclear Power–Some Ethical and Social Dimensions. In T. Regan & D. VanDeVeer (Eds.), And justice for all: New introductory essays in ethics and public policy (pp. 116–138). Rowman & Littlefield. https://philpapers.org/rec/ROUNPE
Plumwood, V. (1990a). Women, Humanity And Nature. In Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203411988-14/10-women-humanity-nature-val-plumwood
Plumwood, V. (1990b). The Philosophical Basis of Biodiversity Conservation. In D. Mellroy (ed). The Ecological Future of Australia's Forests Australian Conservation Foundation Oct 1990, 2- 5.
Plumwood, V. (1992). Ecosocial Feminism as a General Theory of Oppression: Towards a New Synthesis. Proceedings of Ecopolitics V R. Harding (ed.), University of New South Wales, 63-72. Reprinted in Carolyn Merchant (ed.) Key Concepts in Critical Theory: Ecology, Humanities Press International 1994, 207-219.
Plumwood, V. (1994a). Conversations with Gaia. In Living With Contradictions. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429499142-100/conversations-gaia-val-plumwood
Plumwood, V. (1994b). World Rainforest Destruction - the Social Factors. Reprinted in Louis P Pojman (ed.) Environmental Ethics Jones and Bartlett Boston, 457-471.
Plumwood, V. (1996a). The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature. In K. J. Warren (Ed.), Ecological Feminism. Routledge & CRC Press. https://www.routledge.com/Ecological-Feminism/Warren/p/book/9780415072984
Plumwood, V. (1996b). Has Democracy Failed Ecology? An Ecofeminist Perspective. In Ecology and Democracy. Freya Mathews (ed.) London, Frank Cass, 134-168.
Plumwood, V. (1996c). Environmental Education, Liberatory Education and Place-Sensitive Narrative. In Colloquium on Environment, Ethics and Education ed. Bob Jickling, Yukon College Canada, 76-89.
Plumwood, V. (1997a). Androcentrism and Anthropocentrism: Parallels and Politics. In K. Warren (ed.) Ecological Feminism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Indiana University Press, 327-355.
Plumwood, V. (1997b). Ecojustice, Inequality and Ecological Rationality. In Yeager Hudson (ed.) Technology, Morality and Social Policy, Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeteer: The Edwin Mellen Press. Also in John Dryzek and David Schlosberg eds. Debating the Earth: the Environmental Politics Reader, Oxford University Press, 559-583.
Plumwood, V. (1998a). Paths Beyond Human-Centeredness: Lessons from Liberation Struggles. In A. Weston (Ed.), An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/an-invitation-to-environmental-philosophy-9780195122046
Plumwood, V. (1998b). Wilderness Skepticism and Wilderness Dualism. In J. B. Callicott & M. P. Nelson (Eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate (pp. 652–690). University of Georgia Press. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820319841/the-great-new-wilderness-debate/
Plumwood, V. (1999a). Comment: Self-Realization or Man Apart? The Reed-Naess Debate. In N. Witoszek & A. Brennan (Eds.), Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781461640769/Philosophical-Dialogues-Arne-Naess-and-the-Progress-of-Philosophy
Plumwood, V. (1999b). Ecological ethics from rights to recognition: Multiple spheres of justice for humans, animals and nature. In N. Low (Ed.), Global Ethics and Environment. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203015254-14/ecological-ethics-rights-recognition-val-plumwood
Plumwood, V. (1999c). Forest Lover, Live Forever—A Philosophy of the Forests. In G. J. Borschmann (Ed.), The People’s Forest: A Living History of the Australian Bush. People’s Forest Press. https://www.nla.gov.au/collections/guide-selected-collections/peoples-forest-collection
Plumwood, V. (2000a). Ontological determinism and deep ecology: Evading the moral questions? In E. Katz, A. Light, & D. Rothenberg (Eds.), Beneath the surface: Critical essays in the philosophy of deep ecology. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262611497/beneath-the-surface/
Plumwood, V. (2000b). Deep Ecology, Deep Pockets, and Deep Problems: a Feminist Eco-Socialist Analysis. In Andrew Light, Eric Katz and David Rothenburg eds. Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on Deep Ecology MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 59-84.
Plumwood, V. (2001). Naming, Belonging and Decolonisation. In Ecopolitics: Thought and Action ed. Martin Mulligan, University of Western Sydney Publications, 90-106.
Plumwood, V. (2002a). Belonging, Naming, and Decolonisation. In Jean Hillier and Roxana Waterson eds. in Habitus: a Sense of Place Ashgate Press, London, 353-374. 2nd edition 2005.
Plumwood, V. (2002b). Decolonising Relationships with Nature: Colonisation, eurocentrism and anthropocentrism. In Martin Mulligan and Bill Adams eds. Decolonising Nature Earthscan, London, 51-78.
Plumwood, V. (2002c). The Crisis of Reason, the Rationalist Market, and Global Ecology. In Louiza Odysseos and Hakan Seckinelgin Gendering the International. Palgrave Macmillan, 40-65. Plumwood, V. (2003a). The Politics of Reason: Towards a Feminist Logic. Reprinted in Marjorie Hass and Rachel Joffe Falmagne (eds.) eds. Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic Rowman and Littlefield, pp 11-44.
Plumwood, V. (2003b). Feminism and the Logic of Alterity. In Marjorie Hass and Rachel Joffe Falmagne eds. Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic Rowman and Littlefield, pp 45-70.
Plumwood, V., Sylvan, R., & Meyer, R. (2003c). Multiplying Connectives and Multiply Intensional Logics. In Ross Brady ed. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals 2 Ashgate Publishing Aldershot, pp 17-36.
Plumwood, V., & Sylvan, R. (2003d). Non-Normal Relevant Systems. In Ross Brady ed. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals 2 Ashgate Publishing Aldershot, p 10-16.
Plumwood, V., & Sylvan, R. (2003e). Operational Semantics. In Ross Brady ed. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals 2. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp 38-67.
Plumwood, V., Sylvan, R., Meyer, R., Brady, R. & Mortensen, C. (2003f). The Algebraic Analysis of Relevant Affixing Systems. In Ross Brady ed. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals 2. Ashgate Publishing Aldershot, pp 72-140.
Plumwood, V., Sylvan, R., & Loparic, A. (2003g). The More General Semantical Theory of Implication and Conditionality. In Ross Brady ed. Relevant Logics and Their Rivals 2 Ashgate Publishing Aldershot 2003 pp 141-191.
Plumwood, V. (2003h). The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature. In Nancy Holmstrom ed. The Socialist Feminist Project New York, Monthly Review Press, 377-395.
Plumwood, V. (2002a). Feminism and the Logic of Alterity. In R. J. Falmagne & M. Hass (Eds.), Representing reason: Feminist theory and formal logic (pp. 45–70). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://fitelson.org/piksi/representing_reason.pdf#page=54
Plumwood, V. (2002b). The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature. In N. Holmstrom (Ed.), The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781583670682/the-socialist-feminist-project/
Plumwood, V. (2004a). Gender, Ecofeminism, and the Environment. In R. White (Ed.), Controversies in Environmental Sociology (pp. 43–60). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/controversies-in-environmental-sociology/gender-ecofeminism-and-the-environment/D926B38DE34696DCDECBD941A4705EA6
Plumwood, V. (2004b). Animals and Ecology: Towards a Better Integration. In S.Sapontzis ed. Food for Thought Prometheus Books, New York, 344-358
Plumwood, V. (2004c). Inequality, Ecojustice, and Ecological Rationality. In J. S. Dryzek, D. Schlosberg, J. S. Dryzek, & D. Schlosberg (Eds.), The Environmental Politics Reader: Debating the Earth (Second Edition, Second Edition). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-environmental-politics-reader-9780199276295?cc=au&lang=en&
Plumwood, V. (2005a). Belonging, Naming and Decolonisation. In Habitus: A Sense of Place (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315253701-27/belonging-naming-decolonisation-val-plumwood
Plumwood, V., & Van Dooren, T. (2005). Place, Politics, and Spirituality: An Interview. In L. D. Angeles, T. V. Dooren, & E. R. Orr (Eds.), Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future. Llewellyn Worldwide. https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Pagan_Visions_for_a_Sustainable_Future.html?id=i8DYFS1Kh50C&redir_esc=y
Plumwood, V. (2005b). Toward a Progressive Naturalism. In T. Heyd (Ed.), Recognizing the autonomy of nature: Theory and practice (pp. 25–53). Columbia University Press. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/heyd13606-001/html?lang=en
Plumwood, V. (2006). Towards a Feminist Ecological Politics: an Exploration of Hybridity. In Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley eds., Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 51-74.
Plumwood, V. (2007a). Environmental Ethics. In J. Pretty, A. Ball, T. Benton, J. Guivant, D. R. Lee, D. Orr, M. Pfeffer, & H. Ward (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society (1st edition). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/hdbk_envirosociety/n12.xml
Plumwood, V. (2007b). Journey to the Heart of Stone. In I. Beckett & T. Gifford (Eds.), Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism. Brill Academic Publishing. https://brill.com/display/book/9789401204781/B9789401204781-s003.xml
Plumwood, V. (2009). Environmental Justice. In R. C. Elliot (Ed.), Institutional Issues Involving Ethics And Justice - Volume I (pp. 329–351). EOLSS Publications. https://www.eolss.net/ebooklib/bookinfo/institutional-issues-involving-ethics-justice.aspx
Plumwood, V. (2010a). Nature in the Active Voice. In R. Irwin (Ed.), Climate Change and Philosophy: Transformational Possibilities. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/climate-change-and-philosophy-9780826440655/
Plumwood, V. (2010b). Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism. In D. R. Keller (Ed.), Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions. John Wiley & Sons. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315239897-13/nature-self-gender-feminism-environmental-philosophy-critique-rationalism-val-plumwood
Plumwood, V. (2012). Decolonizing Relationships with Nature. In W. (Bill) Adams & M. Mulligan (Eds.), Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Decolonizing-Nature-Strategies-for-Conservation-in-a-Post-colonial-Era/Adams-Mulligan/p/book/9781853837494
Plumwood, V. (2013). Nature in the Active Voice. In G. Harvey (Ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. Routledge. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/handbook-of-contemporary-animism/nature-in-the-active-voice/EC9960578FC4F67B363AF1AD211D6E99
Plumwood, V. (2017). The Environment. In A. Jaggar & I. Marion Young (Eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy (pp. 213–222). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405164498.ch21
Plumwood, V. (2018). Ecofeminist Analysis and the Culture of Ecological Denial. In L. Stevens, P. Tait, & D. Varney (Eds.), Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene (pp. 97–112). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64385-4_6
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Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1966). On the identity of sensations and physiological occurrences" American Philosophical Quarterly 3. 87-110.
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1969a). A Fallacy of Modality. Noûs, 3(2), 129–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/2216261
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1969b). Categories – expressions or things? Theoria, 35(3), 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-2567.1969.tb00370.x
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1972a). Pine Planting and Environmental Irresponsibility. The Australian Quarterly, 44(4), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/20634532
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1972b). The Semantics of First Degree Entailment. Noûs, 6(4), 335–359. https://doi.org/10.2307/2214309
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1973a). Rehabilitating Meinong’s Theory of Objects. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 27(104/105 (2/3)), 224–254.
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1973b). Ryle’s reductio ad absurdum argument. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048407312341141
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1974). The Semantics of Belief and the Laws of Thought Myth. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 39: 206-7.
Plumwood, V. (1975a). Critical notice of Passmore’s Man’s responsibility for nature. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 53(2), 171–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048407512341211
Plumwood, V. (1975b). Passmore, J.: “Man’s Responsibility for Nature.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 53(n/a), 171. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048407512341211
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1975). The role of inconsistent and incomplete theories in the logic of belief. Communication and Cognition. 8. 185-235.
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1978). Nuclear energy and obligations to the future. Inquiry, 21(1–4), 133–179. https://doi.org/10.1080/00201747808601840
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1979a). The (logical) importance of not existing. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue Canadienne de Philosophie, 18(2), 129–165. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300048046
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1979b). Some bad arguments for and against conventionalism. International Logic Review, 10 (1979) pp.84-90.
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1979c). Ideal Objects on a Meinongian theory of Universals. Proceedings of the Xth World Congress of Philosophy, Varna, 5.
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1980). Destructive Forestry in Melanesia and Australia. The Ecologist 10 (1/2) pp.56-67. Plumwood, V. (1981). On Karl Marx as an Environmental Hero. Environmental Ethics, 3(3), 237–244. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics19813323
Plumwood, V., & Routledge, R. (1982). The Irrefutability of Anarchism. Social Alternatives, 2(3), 23–29. https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:5b35e7e
Routley, R., & Plumwood, V. (1982). World Rainforest Destruction - the Social Factors. The Ecologist Vol. 12, No.1, Jan/Feb 1982, pp.4-22. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/ecologist/issues1980-1989.html
Sylvan, R., & Plumwood, V. (1983). Relevant Logic Semantics. Topoi. Plumwood, V. (1983). Semantical Foundations for Value Theory. Noûs, 17(3), 441–456. https://doi.org/10.2307/2215259
Sylvan, R., & Plumwood, V. (1984a). An Expensive Repair-kit for Utilitarianism", Discussion Papers in Environmental Philosophy Series, No.7, 1984, Australian National University.
Sylvan, R., & Plumwood, V. (1984b). Moral Dilemmas and the Logic of Deontic Notions. Canberra, Discussion Papers in Environmental Philosophy, No.6, Australian National University. 42 pages.
Sylvan, R., & Plumwood, V. (1985). Negation and Contradiction. Revista Colombiana de Matematicas, Vol.XIX. pp.201-231. Plumwood, V. (1985). The Problem of the Extent of Moral Consideration. Proceedings of the Russellian Society. Vol. 10. pp.50-67.
Plumwood, V. (1986). Ecofeminism: An Overview and Discussion of Positions and Arguments. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.1986.9755430
Sylvan, R., & Plumwood, V. (1986). The "Fight for the Forests" Affair. B. Martin et al. (eds) Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories. Analysis and Responses Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 70-74.
Plumwood, V. (1987). Women, Humanity and Nature Radical Philosophy 48, Spring/Summer, pp.16-24. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/women-humanity-and-nature
Plumwood, V. (1989). Do We Need a Sex/Gender Distinction? Radical Philosophy, 51. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/do-we-need-a-sexgender-distinction-2
Plumwood, V. (1989). Response to Moira Gatens. Radical Philosophy 53, Autumn 1989. Plumwood, V. (1990a). Feminism and Ecological Identity. Proceedings of the National Foundation of Australian Women Conference Canberra, Sept 1990
Plumwood, V. (1990b). Gaia and Greenhouse: How Helpful is the Use of Feminine Imagery for Nature? Changing Directions: Proceedings of Ecopolitics iv. Ed. Ken Dyer and John Young, Adelaide, Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide, 622-628.
Plumwood, V. (1990c). Plato and the Bush: Philosophy and the Environment in Australia. Meanjin, 49(3), 524–536. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.135095709426105
Plumwood, V. (1991a). Ethics and Instrumentalism: A Response to Janna Thompson. Environmental Ethics, 13(2), 139–149. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics199113227
Plumwood, V. (1991b). Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism. Hypatia, 6(1), 3–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00206.x
Plumwood, V. (1991c). Gaia - Good for Women? Refractory Girl, December. Plumwood, V. (1992a). Current trends in ecofeminism. The Ecologist, 22(1). https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/ecologist/issues1990-1999.html
Plumwood, V. (1992b). SealsKin. Meanjin, 51(1), 45–57. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.135039810512330
Plumwood, V. (1992c). The Atavism of Flighty Females. The Ecologist, 22(1), 36. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/ecologist/issues1990-1999.html
Plumwood, V. (1992d). Conversations with Gaia. Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, The American Philosophical Association, Vol 91 (1) Spring 1992, 61-65.
Plumwood, V. (1993a). Feminism and ecofeminism: Beyond the Dualistic Assumptions of Women, Men and Nature. Society and Nature, 1(2), 36–51. https://www.democracynature.org/vol2/vol2_no1_1993.htm
Plumwood, V. (1993b). The Politics of Reason: Towards a Feminist Logic. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048409312345432
Plumwood, V. (1994a). Democracy, Globalisation and Ecology. School of Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University. Proceedings of Ecopolitics VII.
Plumwood, V. (1994b). Science, Silence and Survival: the Politics of Scientific Rationality. Intellectual Dissent: Papers from Society for Social Responsibility in Science Conference, Latrobe University Department of Education.
Plumwood, V. (1994c). Civic Lores. Arena Magazine (Fitzroy, Vic), 13, 25–28. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.950201508
Plumwood, V., & Kenan, S. (1994d). Military displays. Arena Magazine (Fitzroy, Vic), 9, 37–39. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.033990669990688
Plumwood, V. (1995a). Has democracy failed ecology? An Ecofeminist perspective. Environmental Politics, 4(4), 134–168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644019508414231
Plumwood, V. (1995b). Human vulnerability and the experience of being prey. Quadrant, 39(3), 29–34. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.276838296188087
Plumwood, V. (1995c). Feminism, Privacy, and Radical Democracy. Anarchist Studies 3 1995, 97-120.
Plumwood, V. (1996a). Androcentrism and Anthrocentrism: Parallels and Politics. Ethics and the Environment, 1(2), 119–152. https://philpapers.org/rec/PLUAAA
Plumwood, V. (1996b). Contesting the Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. The Ecologist, 26(5), 234–236. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/ecologist/issues1990-1999.html
Plumwood, V. (1996c). Being Prey. Terra Nova Vol 1(3) Summer 1996, 32-44. (Reprinted in The New Earth Reader: New Environmental Writing MIT Press, 1999, 76-92.)
Plumwood, V. (1996d). Free market deep ecology. The Ecologist, 26(5). https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/ecologist/issues1990-1999.html
Plumwood, V. (1996e). Does Ecofeminism Need the Master Subject? A Response to Janis Birkeland. The Trumpeter 13(4) Fall 1996, 193-197.
Plumwood, V. (1996f). Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum article on croc attack (condensed version of Quadrant article).
Plumwood, V. (1997a). Babe: The Tale of the Speaking Meat - Part I. Animal Issues, 1(1). https://ro.uow.edu.au/ai/vol1/iss1/3
Plumwood, V. (1997b). Babe: The Tale of the Speaking Meat - Part II. Animal Issues, 1(2). https://ro.uow.edu.au/ai/vol1/iss2/2
Plumwood, V. (1997c). Prospecting for Ecological Gold Amongst the Platonic Forms: A Response to Timothy Mahoney. Ethics and the Environment, 2(2), 149–168. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40338938
Plumwood, V. (1997d). Ecofeminism and the Master Subject. Environmental Ethics Winter 1997, 223-224.
Plumwood, V. (1998). Knowledge in an Ethical Framework of Care. Australian Journal of Environmental Management. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14486563.1998.10648434
Plumwood, V. (1998a). Intentional Recognition and Reductive Rationality: A Response to John Andrews. Environmental Values, 7(4), 397–421. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327198129341645
Plumwood, V. (1998b). The Crisis of Reason, the Rationalist Market, and Global Ecology. Millennium, 27(4), 903–925. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298980270041501
Plumwood, V. (1999a). Feminist betrayals: Jean Curthoys, Feminist Amnesia: The Wake of Women’s Liberation. Arena Journal, 13, 143–162. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.200003750
Plumwood, V. (1999b). Inequality, Ecojustice and Ecological Rationality. Ecotheology: Journal of Religion, Nature & the Environment, 5(5/6), 185. https://doi.org/10.1558/ecotheology.v3i2.1775
Plumwood, V. (1999c). The Struggle for Environmental Philosophy in Australia. Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853599X00135
Plumwood, V. (2000a). A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi. Animal Issues, 4(1). https://ro.uow.edu.au/ai/vol4/iss1/2
Plumwood, V. (2000b). Integrating Ethical Frameworks for Animals, Humans, and Nature: A Critical Feminist Eco-Socialist Analysis. Ethics & the Environment, 5(2), 285–322. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40338997
Plumwood, V. (2000c). Remembering Judith Wright. Arena Magazine, 49, 44. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.200103667
Plumwood, V. (2001a). Towards a Progressive Naturalism. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Dec 2001, 3-32. Plumwood, V. (2001b). Symposium contribution: Green Thinking - from Australia. Environmental Politics 10(4), pp 85-102.
Plumwood, V. (2001c). Nature as Agency and the Prospects for a Progressive Naturalism. Capitalism Nature Socialism. https://doi.org/10.1080/104557501101245225
Plumwood, V. (2002a). Decolonising relationships with nature. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, 2, 7–30. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/57D8A62177281
Plumwood, V. (2002b). Forum Contribution: Making Androcentric Pudding from Mixed Ingredients. Ecopolitics 1(4), 105-113.
Plumwood, V. (2003). The Fight for the Forests revisited. Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia), 23(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.200404041
Plumwood, V. (2005a). Decolonising Australian gardens: Gardening and the ethics of place – AHR. Australian Humanities Review, 36. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2005/07/01/decolonising-australian-gardens-gardening-and-the-ethics-of-place/
Plumwood, V. (2005b). The Fraser Island Dingo Cull and the Ethics of Negotiation. Philosophy Activism Nature, 3, 12–21. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.897648483301423
Plumwood, V. (2006). The Concept of a Cultural Landscape: Nature, Culture and Agency in the Land. Ethics and the Environment, 11(2), 115–150. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/209976/pdf
Plumwood, V. (2007a). A review of Deborah Bird Rose’s ‘Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation.’ Australian Humanities Review, 42. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2007/08/01/a-review-of-deborah-bird-roses-reports-from-a-wild-country-ethics-for-decolonisation/
Plumwood, V. (2007b). Human Exceptionalism and the Limitations of Animals: A review of Raimond Gaita’s ‘The Philosopher’s Dog.’ Australian Humanities Review, 42. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2007/08/01/human-exceptionalism-and-the-limitations-of-animals-a-review-of-raimond-gaitas-the-philosophers-dog/
Plumwood, V. (2007c). The Cemetery Wars: Cemeteries, Biodiversity and the Sacred. Local-Global: Identity, Security, Community, 3(2007), 54–71. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.132753641237706
Plumwood, V. (2008a). Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling. Australian Humanities Review, 44. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2008/03/01/shadow-places-and-the-politics-of-dwelling/
Plumwood, V. (2008b). Tasteless: Towards a Food-Based Approach to Death. Environmental Values, 17(3), 323–330. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30302203
Plumwood, V. (2009). Nature in the Active Voice. Australian Humanities Review 46, 113-129.
Plumwood, V. (2020). Gaia, good for women? Refractory Girl: A Women’s Studies Journal, 41, 11–16. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.920605844
Plumwood, V. (2023). Some False Laws of Logic. The Australasian Journal of Logic, 20(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v29i2.8286
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Plumwood, V. (2007, February 25). Ecopolitical debate and the politics of Nature. https://videolectures.net/dpu06_plumwood_edpn/
Saunders, A., & Plumwood, V. (2007, September 15). Can environmental philosophy save the world? In ABC listen. ABC Radio National.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/can-environmental-philosophy-save-the-world/3227926
Saunders, A., Plumwood, V., Brady, S., Harrison, M. French, J. Two Fires Burning. (2005, April 15). In ABC listen.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/saturdayextra/two-fires-burning/3448750
Plumwood, V. (1996). Environmental Education, Liberatory Education and Place-Sensitive Narrative. In B. Jickling (Ed.), Proceedings of a colloquium / Colloquium on Environment, Ethics, and Education: Held to the explore the themes what environmental ethics can do for teachers, what teachers can do for environmental ethics ; hosted at Yukon College, Whitehorse, Yukon, July 14—16, 1995 (pp. 76–89). Yukon College. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED414167
Plumwood, V. (1992) ‘Women, Nature and Freedom’ - Public Lecture, University of Tasmania, Launceston https://www.plumwood.org/women-nature-and-freedom-public-lecture
Val’s PhD Thesis: Plumwood, V. (1990). Women of the Mysterious Forest: Women, Nature, and Philosophy. An exploration of self and gender in relation to traditional dualisms in western culture [Australian National University].https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/156723891.pdf
Video of Val recounting the crocodile attack from her hospital bed:Philosopher Val Plumwood recounts near death encounter with crocodile. (1985). Australian Broadcasting Channel. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/philosopher-val-plumwood-recounts-near-death/14049638
Documentary where Val returns to Kakadu for the first time after her attack: Grieg, D. (Director). (1988). Kakadu—Land of the Crocodile. Kestrel Film & Video Pty Ltd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lOiQSxIug
Can environmental philosophy save the world? (ABC Radio National, 15 September 2001)
Alan Saunders and Val Plumwood discuss on The Philosophers Zone on ABC Radio National.
Philosopher Val Plumwood recounts near death encounter with crocodile (ABC 1985)
Val Plumwood recounts her close encounter with a crocodile while canoeing through Kakadu National Park from her hospital bed.
Ecopolitical debate and the politics of Nature (DPU, 2006)
Val Plumwood on the politics of Nature at DPU 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Val Plumwood Connections
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Plumwood Mountain Journal https://plumwoodmountain.com/
Bush Retreats for Eco Writers (BREW) https://thebrewnetwork.org/
Australian Environmental Humanities Hub https://www.aehhub.org/
Environmental Humanities Journal https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities
Shadow Places Network
https://www.shadowplaces.net/
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Griffin, N. (2001). "Val Plumwood". In 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment. ed. Joy A. Palmer, Routledge, 283-290. Reprinted 2017.
Mulligan, M., & Hill, S. (2001). Towards a Communicative Ethic: Australian Contributions to Ecophilosophy. In Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action. Cambridge University Press 2001, 274-300.
Diehm, C. (2002). Arne Naess, Val Plumwood, and Deep Ecological Subjectivity: A Contribution to the “Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate.” Ethics and the Environment, 7(1), 24–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40339021
Cohen, I. (2008, March 6). Ian-cohen-addres-to-parliament.doc [Parliamentary Record]. https://valplumwood.wordpress.com/category/remembering-val-stories-and-obituaries/
Brown, B. (2008, March 12). Matters of Public Interest: Dr Val Plumwood [Parliamentary Record]. https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22chamber/hansards/2008-03-12/0053%22;src1=sm1
Burke, G. (2008). Val Plumwood Obituary. Braidwood Times. https://valplumwood.wordpress.com/category/remembering-val-stories-and-obituaries/
French, J. (2008). Memories of Val Plumwood. https://valplumwood.wordpress.com/category/remembering-val-stories-and-obituaries/
Green, K. (2008). Val Plumwood. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86(2), 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400802077020
Mulligan, M. (2008). Sisters of unsettling eloquence: Val Plumwood and Judith Wright. https://valplumwood.wordpress.com/category/remembering-val-stories-and-obituaries/
Mathews, F. (2008a). Vale Val: In Memory of Val Plumwood. Environmental Values, 17(3), 317–321. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327108X343095
Mathews, F. (2008b, March 26). Val Plumwood. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/26/australia.world
Bird Rose, D. (2008). Obituary: Val Plumwood (1939-2008). Australian Humanities Review. https://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2008/03/01/obiturary-val-plumwood-1939-2008/
Hyde, D. (2009). Two in the Bush: The Environmental Philosophy of Val Routley/Plumwood and Richard Routley/Sylvan. Southerly, 69(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.262030770227953 Mallory, C. (2009).
Val Plumwood and Ecofeminist Political Solidarity: Standing with the Natural Other. Ethics and the Environment, 14(2), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.2979/ete.2009.14.2.3
Van Dooren, T. (2009). Genetic Conservation in a Climate of Loss: Thinking with Val Plumwood. https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/8550
Roelvink, G., Gibson, K., & Graham, J. (2009). A Postcapitalist Politics of Dwelling: Ecological Humanities and Community Economies in Conversation. Australian Humanities Review. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A12491/
Curry, P. (2010). Some Remarks on Val Plumwood. Green Letters. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2010.10589059
Rose, D. B. (2013). Val Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism: Attentive Interactions in the Sentient World. Environmental Humanities, 3(1), 93,109. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3611248
Hyde, D. (2014). Eco-Logical Lives: The Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley/Plumwood. White Horse Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv289dvpg
Gelonesi, J. & Hyde, D. (2014, April 20). Two lives, green and logical [Broadcast]. In ABC listen. ABC Radio National. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/two-lives,-green-and-logical/5380460
Warren, K. J. (2015). Feminist Environmental Philosophy. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/feminism-environmental/
Fijn, N. (2016). A Shadow Place: Plumwood Mountain. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, 7(1). https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol7/iss1/12
Eckert, M., & Donahue, C. (2020). Towards a Feminist Logic: Val Plumwood’s Legacy and Beyond. In D. Hyde (Ed.), Noneist Explorations II: The Sylvan Jungle—Volume 3 (Synthese Library, 432) (pp. 424–448). https://philarchive.org/archive/ECKTAF
Coombe, Z. (2020) “Plumwood.” An A to Z of Shadow Places Concepts. https://www.shadowplaces.net/concepts
Adams, P. & French, J. (2021, May 13). Jackie French on writing women, animals and rocks into history—ABC listen [Broadcast]. In Late Night Live. ABC Radio National. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/jackie-french/13339482
Potter, E., Miller, F., Lövbrand, E., Houston, D., McLean, J., O’Gorman, E., Evers, C., & Ziervogel, G. (2022). A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(1), 272–292. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620977022
Hyde, D. (2023). Val (Routley) Plumwood: Work in Logic. The Australasian Journal of Logic, 20(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v29i2.8283
Matthews, B. & Rigby, K. (2023, May 27). Dr Val Plumwood [Broadcast]. In Radical Philosophy. 3CR Community Radio. https://www.3cr.org.au/radicalphilosophy/episode/dr-val-plumwood-prof-kate-rigby
Fijn, N. (2024). Entangled Plumwoods: Stewardship as Grassroots Conservation Humanities. Humanities, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010037
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Hyde, D. (2014). Eco-Logical Lives. The Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley /Plumwood. The White Horse Press. https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2014/01/18/eco-logical-lives/
Fijn, N. (2024). Entangled Plumwoods: Stewardship as Grassroots Conservation Humanities. Humanities, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13010037
Potter, E., Miller, F., Lövbrand, E., Houston, D., McLean, J., O’Gorman, E., Evers, C., & Ziervogel, G. (2022). A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(1), 272–292. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620977022
Coombe, Z. (2020) “Plumwood.” An A to Z of Shadow Places Concepts. https://www.shadowplaces.net/concepts
Eckert, M., & Donahue, C. (2020). Towards a Feminist Logic: Val Plumwood’s Legacy and Beyond. In D. Hyde (Ed.), Noneist Explorations II: The Sylvan Jungle—Volume 3 (Synthese Library, 432) (pp. 424–448). https://philarchive.org/archive/ECKTAF
Griffin, N. (2017). Val Plumwood 1939–2008. In Key Thinkers on the Environment. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315543659-58/val-plumwood-1939%E2%80%932008-nicholas-griffin
Fijn, N. (2016). A Shadow Place: Plumwood Mountain. Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, 7(1). https://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol7/iss1/12
Warren, K. J. (2015). Feminist Environmental Philosophy. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/feminism-environmental/
Rose, D. B. (2013). Val Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism: Attentive Interactions in the Sentient World. Environmental Humanities, 3(1), 93–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3611248
Fijn, N. (2013). Living with Crocodiles: Engagement with a Powerful Reptilian Being. Animal Studies Journal, 2(2), 1–27. https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol2/iss2/2/
Roelvink, G., Gibson, K., & Graham, J. (2009). A Postcapitalist Politics of Dwelling: Ecological Humanities and Community Economies in Conversation. Australian Humanities Review. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A12491/
Van Dooren, T. (2009). Genetic Conservation in a Climate of Loss: Thinking with Val Plumwood. https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/8550
Mallory, C. (2009). Val Plumwood and Ecofeminist Political Solidarity: Standing with the Natural Other. Ethics and the Environment, 14(2), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.2979/ete.2009.14.2.3
Diehm, C. (2002). Arne Naess, Val Plumwood, and Deep Ecological Subjectivity: A Contribution to the “Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate.” Ethics and the Environment, 7(1), 24–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40339021
Dr. Val Plumwood (Radical Philosophy, on 3CR Community Radio, 27 May 2003)
Kate Rigby and Beth Matthews discuss the legacy of Dr. Val Plumwood on Radical Philosophy.
Philosophy and Ecology (The Philosophers Zone, ABC Radio National, 18 April 2021)
Lara Stevens discusses the ongoing relevance of Val Plumwood’s work in the face of contemporary ecological crises with David Rutledge, on the Philosopher’s Zone.
Author, historian and ecologist Jackie French AM discusses writing women into war history, her close friendship with the philosopher Val Plumwood, wombat culture and more with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live.
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