Humanities and Social Sciences

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Freya Mathews

Publication List

Books (authored)
The Ecological Self, Routledge, London, 1991. Reissued 1993; paperback 1994.

For Love of Matter, SUNY Press, Albany, 2003.

Journey to the Source of the Merri, Gininderra Press, Canberra, 2003.

Reinhabiting Reality:Towards a Recovery of Culture, SUNY Press, Albany, 2005.

Books (edited)
Ecology and Democracy, Frank Cass, London, 1996.
This book includes both an Introduction and a separate article written by myself (see below).

Articles in Academic Journals
'Democracy and the Ecological Crisis', Legal Service Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 4, Aug. 1991, pp. 157-159.

'When the Planet Speaks...', Res Publica, Vol. 2, no. 1, 1993, pp. 9-14.

'Relating to Nature', The Trumpeter, Vol. 11, no. 4, 1994, pp. 159-166.

'Community and the Ecological Self', Environmental Politics, Vol. 4, no. 4, 1996, pp. 66-100.

'The Soul of Things', Terra Nova (MIT Press), vol. 1, no. 4, 1996, pp. 55-64.

'Living with Animals', Animal Issues, vol. I, no. I, 1997, pp. 4-16.

'Becoming Native to the City', Blind Donkey: Journal of the Diamond Sangha, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 12-17.

'From Epistemology to 'Spirituality: Feminist Perspectives', Journal of Dharma, special issue on Chnaging Faces of Femininity: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 32, no. 4, 1998, pp. 517-539.

Introduction ('Ecophilosophy in Australia') to Special Issue on Australian Perspectives, Worldviews vol. 3, no. 2, 1999, pp. 119-137.

'Letting the World Grow Old: an Ethos of Countermodernity I', Worldviews vol. 3, no. 2, 1999, pp. 119-137.

'Becoming Native: an Ethos of Countermodernity II', Worldviews vol. 3, no. 3, 1999, pp. 243-272.

'CERES: Singing Up the City', PAN (Philosophy Activism Nature), no. 1, 2000, pp. 5-15.

Editorial, PAN (Philosophy Activism Nature), 2, 2002.

'Land Metaphysics', Dialogue 23, 1, 2004, pp. 11-17.

'Letting the World Do the Doing', Australian Humanities Review 33, 2004 (electronic).

'Beyond a Materialist Environmentalism', Nanjing Forestry University Journal, forthcoming (in Chinese translation).

“Beyond Modernity and Tradition: towards a Third Way for Development”, Nanjing Forestry University Journal, July 2006, (translated into Chinese by Li Ling) and in Ethics and the Environment (forthcoming)

Book Chapters
Reprints of 'Conservation and Self-Realization: A Deep Ecology Perspective' from Environmental Ethics (1988).

Alan Drengson & Yuichi Inoue (eds), The Deep Ecology Movement, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,California, 1995, pp. 124-135.

Andrew Brennan, Environmental Philosophy, Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1995, pp. 183-92.

J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer (eds), Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment, Routledge, London and New York, forthcoming 2004.

'Terra Incognita: Carnal Legacies' in Laurie Cosgrove et al (eds), Restoring the Land, Melbourne Unviersity Press, Melbourne 1994, pp. 37-46.

'To Know the World' in Farley Kelly (ed), On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1993, pp. 199-227.

'Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism' in Carolyn Merchant (ed.), Ecology: Key Concepts in Critical Theory, Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1994, pp. 235-245.

Reprints of chapters or selections from The Ecological Self:
1) 'Value in Nature and Meaning in Life' in Robert Elliot, Environmental Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 142-154.
2) Extracts from Chapter 1 in Louis Pojman (ed), Environmental Ethics, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2003.

Reprint of 'Community and the Ecological Self', Environmental Politics, Vol 4, no 4, 1996, pp. 66-100 in Freya Mathews (ed), Ecology and Democracy, Frank Cass, London, 1996.

'The Real, the One and the Many in Ecological Thought' in Joy Palmer and David Cooper, The Spirit of the Environment, Routledge, London, 1998, pp. 57-72.

Reprints of 'Letting the World Grow Old: an Ethos of Countermodernity', Worldviews 3, 2, 1999:
1) David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott (eds), Environmental Ethics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
2) J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer (eds), Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment, Routledge, London and New York, 2004.

Reprint of extracts from ‘Living with Animals’, Animal Issues, vol I, no I, 1997, pp. 4-16 in Susan Armstrong and Richard Boltzler (eds), The Animal Ethics Reader, Routledge, London and New York, 2003.

Reprint of ‘Becoming Native to the City’, Blind Donkey : Journal of the Diamond Sangha, vol 18, no 1,1998, pp. 12-17 in John Cameron (ed), Changing Places: Reimagining Australia, Longueville, Double Bay NSW, 2003.

Encyclopedias and Companions

Entry on Ecological Philosophy for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, London,1998.

'Deep Ecology', in Dale Jamieson (ed), Companion to Environmental Philosophy, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000, pp. 218-233.

Entry on Urban Reinhabitation in Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan (eds), Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum International, 2005.

Articles in Other Publications

'Fertility Control in Wildlife: Ethical Perspectives', Habitat , Vol. 19, No. 1, 1991. pp. 9-12.

'Sacred Heart: a Journey to the Source of the Merri Creek', the Saturday Essay in The Age, May 13, 2000.

'Journey to the Source, Resurgence Nov/Dec 2000, no 203.

'A Poetics of Reinhabitation', in Katrina Hedditch (ed), Getting the Measure: a Collection of Essays from the Forum The Lie of the Land', A Footrcray Community Arts Centre Publication, 2002.

“The Art of Discovering Values”, Eureka Street, January 2006.

Reports

Paper on Sustainable Use of Wildlife for the Ethics Working Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (United Nations), 1994 (5000 words).

'Cultural Relativism and Environmental Ethics', IUCN Ethics Working Group Report No 5, August 1994.

Journal Editorships

I am one of three editors of an occasional journal, PAN (Philosophy, Activism, Nature), launched in 2000, an associate editor of the British journal, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion and I am on the Editorial Advisory Board of the American journal, Environmental Ethics and the Canadian journal, The Trumpeter.

Special Issues of Journals (edited)

Ecology and Democracy was also published as a guest-edited Special Issue of the British academic journal Environmental Politics 4 (4), 1995. Includes articles by John Dryzek, Janna Thompson, John Burnheim, Freya Mathews (see below), Ian Barns, Val Plumwood, Robyn Eckersley, Robert Young, Bronwyn Hayward.

Australian Perspectives on Ecological Thought, special issue of Worldviews, vol 3 no 2, 1999. Includes articles by Val Plumwood, Deborah Bird Rose, Veronical Brady, Mary Graham and Freya Mathews.