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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsForeword 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 devbhūmi: 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
