Ecocultural ethics : critical essays / edited by Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah, Reena Cheruvalath, and Gyan Prakash ; foreword by Mark C. Long.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Systems and frameworks for comparative cross-cultural research / Alan Drengson -- Philosophy from the field : hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders phenomenological experience of environmental change / Kalpita Bhar Paul and Meera Baindur -- Devtha-s, Ddharti, and the Devbhumi : Practices of ecological selves in the Himalayas / Meera Baindur -- Relativism, realism, and the roots of the ecological crisis / Alyssa Luboff -- Encountering the city and the forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair's Kanchana Sita / Anchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Ecoethics of the desert : the Bedouins' dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa's Seeds of Corruption / Mariam Taha (Al-Naqr) -- The ground of our being : Dear Governor Cuomo as a planetary narrative / Vidya Sarveswaran -- The hazards of anthropocentrism : rereading Kamala Markandeya's The Coffer Dams / Anita Balakrishnan -- "Such unforced love" : Mary Oliver re-thinks domestication / Dee Horne -- Culture and conservation : a study of Kadar Tribe in Kerala / Divya Kalathingal -- Buddhist environmental ethics : a strategy for furvival / Jaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. Ratnam -- Jainism, ecology and ethics / Venu Mehta.

The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus, we need to employ a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

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