Ecocultural Ethics

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.

The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus, we need to employ a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

ForewordMark C. LongPart I: Ecoethics of Research and Quotidian PhilosophyOne - Systems and Frameworks for Comparative Cross-Cultural ResearchAlan DrengsonTwo - Philosophy from the Field: Hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders Phenomenological Experience of Environmental ChangeKalpita Bhar Paul and Meera BaindurThree - Devtha-s, dharti, and the devbh¿mi: Practices of ecological selves in the HimalayasMeera BaindurFour - Relativism, Realism, and the Roots of the Ecological CrisisAlyssa LuboffPart II: Ecoethics of Forest and DevelopmentFive - Encountering the City and the Forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair's Kanchana SitaAnchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha RangarajanSix - Ecoethics of the Desert: The Bedouins' Dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa's Seeds of CorruptionMariam Taha (Al-Naqr)Seven - The Ground of Our Being: Dear Governor Cuomo as a Planetary NarrativeVidya SarveswaranEight - The Hazards of Anthropocentrism: Rereading Kamala Markandeya's The Coffer DamsAnita BalakrishnanPart III: Ecoethics of Domestication, Conservation and ReligionNine - "Such Unforced Love": Mary Oliver Re-thinks DomesticationDee HorneTen - Culture and Conservation: A study of Kadar Tribe in KeralaDivya KalathingalEleven - Buddhist Environmental Ethics: A Strategy for SurvivalJaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. RatnamTwelve - Jainism, Ecology and EthicsVenu Mehta