Ecocultural ethics : critical essays /: critical essays. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah, Reena Cheruvalath, and Gyan Prakash ; foreword by Mark C. Long.
• Editors: Alex, Rayson K
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 193 pages)
• Subjects: 179/.1; Environmental ethics -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies; Culture -- Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental ethics -- Social aspects; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Case studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498532488; 1498532489
• Related ISBNs: 9781498532471
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2017).
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