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How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?Uncommon Causefollows environmental justice activists in Kerala, India, as they seek out, avoid, or strive to overcome conflicts between their causes and their community ties. John Mathiasfinds twocontrasting approaches,each offering distinctpossibilitiesfor anactivist life. One set of activists repudiates community ties and resists normative pressures; for them, environmental justice becomes a way of transcending all local identities and affiliations, even humanity itself. Other activists seek to ground their activism in community belonging, to fight for their own people. Each approach produces its own dilemmas and offers its own insights into ethical tensions we all face between taking a stand and standing with others. In sharing Kerala activists' diverse stories,Uncommon Causeoffers a fresh perspective on environmental ethics, showing that environmentalism

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How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?Uncommon Causefollows... Read more

    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 5/2/2024
    ISBN13: 9780520395503, 978-0520395503
    ISBN10: 0520395506

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

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    How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors?Uncommon Causefollows environmental justice activists in Kerala, India, as they seek out, avoid, or strive to overcome conflicts between their causes and their community ties. John Mathiasfinds twocontrasting approaches,each offering distinctpossibilitiesfor anactivist life. One set of activists repudiates community ties and resists normative pressures; for them, environmental justice becomes a way of transcending all local identities and affiliations, even humanity itself. Other activists seek to ground their activism in community belonging, to fight for their own people. Each approach produces its own dilemmas and offers its own insights into ethical tensions we all face between taking a stand and standing with others. In sharing Kerala activists' diverse stories,Uncommon Causeoffers a fresh perspective on environmental ethics, showing that environmentalism

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