Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Mark C. Long Lexington Books

Ecocultural Ethics

Critical Essays

Ecocultural Ethics

Critical Essays

Description

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.

Foreword
Mark C. Long
Part I: Ecoethics of Research and Quotidian Philosophy
One - Systems and Frameworks for Comparative Cross-Cultural Research
Alan Drengson
Two - Philosophy from the Field: Hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders Phenomenological Experience of Environmental Change
Kalpita Bhar Paul and Meera Baindur
Three - Devtha-s, dharti, and the devbhumi: Practices of ecological selves in the HimalayasMeera Baindur
Four - Relativism, Realism, and the Roots of the Ecological Crisis
Alyssa Luboff

Part II: Ecoethics of Forest and Development
Five - Encountering the City and the Forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair’s Kanchana Sita
Anchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Six - Ecoethics of the Desert: The Bedouins’ Dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa’s Seeds of Corruption
Mariam Taha (Al-Naqr)
Seven - The Ground of Our Being: Dear Governor Cuomo as a Planetary Narrative
Vidya Sarveswaran
Eight - The Hazards of Anthropocentrism: Rereading Kamala Markandeya’s The Coffer Dams
Anita Balakrishnan

Part III: Ecoethics of Domestication, Conservation and Religion
Nine - “Such Unforced Love”: Mary Oliver Re-thinks Domestication
Dee Horne
Ten - Culture and Conservation: A study of Kadar Tribe in Kerala
Divya Kalathingal
Eleven - Buddhist Environmental Ethics: A Strategy for Survival
Jaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. Ratnam
Twelve - Jainism, Ecology and Ethics
Venu Mehta

Product details

Published	Oct 18 2017
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	216
ISBN	9781498532471
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	2 BW Illustrations, 2 BW Photos, 3 Tables
Dimensions	238 x 158 mm
Series	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing