Ecocultural ethics : critical essays / edited by Rayson K. Alex [and three others] ; foreword by Mark C. Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alex, Rayson K., editor.

Long, Mark C., writer of foreword.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics--Social aspects--Case studies.

Environmental ethics.

Culture--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-3248-9