Seeing Animals, Speaking of Nature: Visual Culture and the Question of the Animal

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 119-137

  Ito, Mimei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animal liberation; Derrida; environmental philosophy; iconocentrism; iconoclasm; visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649096874     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276408091987     Document Type: Article

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