Ecocultural Ethics
Critical Essays
Foreword by Mark C. Long Keene State College 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 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, K. Y. Ratnam, Vidya Sarveswaran Indian Institute of Techn Edited by Rayson K. Alex Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, co-editor of Essays i, S. Susan Deborah, Reena Cheruvalath, Gyan Prakash
Publication date:
18 October 2017Length of book:
216 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
238x158mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498532471
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.