Ecocultural Ethics (eBook)

Critical Essays

Rayson K. Alex, Reena Cheruvalath, S. Susan Deborah, Gyan Prakash (Herausgeber)

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2017
216 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3248-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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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The book offers twelve cases of ethics relating to ecology and culture. The twelve cases presented in the twelve essays, are written by eminent scholars from India, USA, Canada and Egypt. Employing various ecocritical frameworks, the writers have tried to understand/analyse literary, cinematic and other cultural texts and contexts. The volume argues that the principles of ethics are as dynamic as culture and nature. Any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus need a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

Autor

Rayson K. Alex is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus.S. Susan Deborah is assistant professor in the Department of English, M. E. S. College of Arts & Commerce.Reena Cheruvalath is assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa campus.Gyan Prakash is assistant professor of philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad.

Inhalt

ForewordMark C. LongPart I: Ecoethics of Research and Quotidian PhilosophyOne - Systems and Frameworks for Comparative Cross-Cultural ResearchAlan DrengsonTwo - Philosophy from the Field: Hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders Phenomenological Experience of Environmental ChangeKalpita Bhar Paul and Meera BaindurThree - Devtha-s, dharti, and the devbhūmi: Practices of ecological selves in the HimalayasMeera BaindurFour - Relativism, Realism, and the Roots of the Ecological CrisisAlyssa LuboffPart II: Ecoethics of Forest and DevelopmentFive - Encountering the City and the Forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair’s Kanchana SitaAnchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha RangarajanSix - Ecoethics of the Desert: The Bedouins’ Dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa’s Seeds of CorruptionMariam Taha (Al-Naqr)Seven - The Ground of Our Being: Dear Governor Cuomo as a Planetary NarrativeVidya SarveswaranEight - The Hazards of Anthropocentrism: Rereading Kamala Markandeya’s The Coffer DamsAnita BalakrishnanPart III: Ecoethics of Domestication, Conservation and ReligionNine - “Such Unforced Love”: Mary Oliver Re-thinks DomesticationDee HorneTen - Culture and Conservation: A study of Kadar Tribe in KeralaDivya KalathingalEleven - Buddhist Environmental Ethics: A Strategy for SurvivalJaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. RatnamTwelve - Jainism, Ecology and EthicsVenu Mehta

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Alyssa Luboff, Venu Mehta, Kalpita Bhar Paul, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, K. Y. Ratnam, Vidya Sarveswaran, Mariam Taha Al-Naqr, Meera Baindur, Anita Balakrishnan, Jaharlal Debbarma, Alan Drengson, Dee Horne, Divya Kalathingal, Anchitha Krishna
• Vorwort: Mark C. Long
• Zusatzinfo: 7 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 3 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Animal ethics • Buddhist Environmental Ethics • Conservation and ethics • cultural ecocriticism • Ecocriticism • ecocultural ethics • ecoculture • ecological crises • ecological selves • environmental justice • environmental philosophy • ethics
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3248-9 / 1498532489
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3248-8 / 9781498532488