Cirrus@Austlit

'I want to walk the shadow places. These are sites of extraction and production: think coal-seam gas fields and their attendant communities, think eroded landscapes and marine dead-zones, think sweatshops - all the places from which we extract resources, or to which we outsource disorder, risk and pollution. They provide for our material comfort, yet in the words of philosopher Val Plumwood, they are places 'we don't know about, don't want to know about, and in a commodity regime don't ever need to know about. ' Is it possible to expand our responsibilities beyond care for home and the places we love, to the degraded, broken and overlooked?'  (Publication abstract)