Ecocultural ethics : critical essays /
edited by Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah, Reena Cheruvalath, and Gyan Prakash ; foreword by Mark C. Long.
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Ecocritical theory and practice .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Systems and frameworks for comparative cross-cultural research / Philosophy from the field : hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders phenomenological experience of environmental change / Devtha-s, Ddharti, and the Devbhumi : Practices of ecological selves in the Himalayas / Relativism, realism, and the roots of the ecological crisis / Encountering the city and the forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair's Kanchana Sita / Ecoethics of the desert : the Bedouins' dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa's Seeds of Corruption / The ground of our being : Dear Governor Cuomo as a planetary narrative / The hazards of anthropocentrism : rereading Kamala Markandeya's The Coffer Dams / "Such unforced love" : Mary Oliver re-thinks domestication / Culture and conservation : a study of Kadar Tribe in Kerala / Buddhist environmental ethics : a strategy for furvival / Jainism, ecology and ethics / Alan Drengson -- Kalpita Bhar Paul and Meera Baindur -- Meera Baindur -- Alyssa Luboff -- Anchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Mariam Taha (Al-Naqr) -- Vidya Sarveswaran -- Anita Balakrishnan -- Dee Horne -- Divya Kalathingal -- Jaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. Ratnam -- 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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Environmental ethics--Social aspects--Case studies. Culture--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.