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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Ecocritical theory and practice
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Ecocritical theory and practice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Systems and frameworks for comparative cross-cultural research / Alan Drengson -- Philosophy from the field : hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders phenomenological experience of environmental change / Kalpita Bhar Paul and Meera Baindur -- Devtha-s, Ddharti, and the Devbhumi : Practices of ecological selves in the Himalayas / Meera Baindur -- Relativism, realism, and the roots of the ecological crisis / Alyssa Luboff -- Encountering the city and the forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair's Kanchana Sita / Anchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Ecoethics of the desert : the Bedouins' dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa's Seeds of Corruption / Mariam Taha (Al-Naqr) -- The ground of our being : Dear Governor Cuomo as a planetary narrative / Vidya Sarveswaran -- The hazards of anthropocentrism : rereading Kamala Markandeya's The Coffer Dams / Anita Balakrishnan -- "Such unforced love" : Mary Oliver re-thinks domestication / Dee Horne -- Culture and conservation : a study of Kadar Tribe in Kerala / Divya Kalathingal -- Buddhist environmental ethics : a strategy for furvival / Jaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. Ratnam -- Jainism, ecology and ethics / Venu Mehta. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Environmental ethics -- Social aspects. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies.
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Culture -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Culture. |
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Environmental ethics. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Alex, Rayson K., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ecocultural ethics. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498532471 (DLC) 2017039074 |
| ISBN |
9781498532488 (Electronic) |
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1498532489 |
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9781498532471 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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