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Ecocultural Ethics

Critical Essays

Edited by Rayson K. Alex; S. Susan Deborah; Reena Cheruvalath and Gyan Prakash - Foreword by Mark C. Long - Contributions by Mariam Taha Al-Naqr; Meera Baindur; Anita Balakrishnan; Jaharlal Debbarma; Alan Drengson; Dee Horne; Divya Kalathingal; Anchitha Krishna; Alyssa Luboff; Venu Mehta; Kalpita Bhar Paul; Swarnalatha Rangarajan; K. Y. Ratnam and Vidya Sarveswaran

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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 216 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-3247-1 • Hardback • October 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-3248-8 • eBook • October 2017 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Social Science / Regional Studies, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory, Social Science / Environment, Social Science / Comparative Cultural Studies, Philosophy / Ethics / Environmental Ethics

Ecocultural Ethics

Critical Essays

Cover Image

Hardback

eBook

Summary

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.

Details

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 216 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-3247-1 • Hardback • October 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-3248-8 • eBook • October 2017 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Subjects: Social Science / Regional Studies, Literary Criticism / Critical Theory / Ecocritical Theory, Social Science / Environment, Social Science / Comparative Cultural Studies, Philosophy / Ethics / Environmental Ethics

Author

Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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 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

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