"... an important contribution to environmental philosophy.... includes provocative discussions of institutional and systemic violence, indigenous resistance to ‘development,’ the land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, women’s ecological knowledge, Jeffersonian agrarian republicanism, Berry’s ideas about ‘principled engagement in community,’ wilderness advocacy, and the need for an attachment to place." ―Choice
"[T]his is a very important book, raising serious questions for development theorists and environmentalists alike." ―Boston Book Review
When Indian centenarian Chinnagounder asked Deane Curtin about his interest in traditional medicine, especially since he wasn’t working for a drug company looking to patent a new discovery, Curtin wondered whether it was possible for the industrialized world to interact with native cultures for reasons other than to exploit them, develop them, and eradicate their traditional practices. The answer, according to Curtin, defines the ethical character of what we typically call 'progress.' Despite the familiar assertion that we live in a global village, cross-cultural environmental and social conflicts are often marked by failures of communication due to deeply divergent assumptions. Curtin articulates a response to Chinnagounder’s challenge in terms of a new, distinctly postcolonial, environmental ethic.

Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship

Politics & Social Sciences

Curtin, Deane W.

Curtin, Deane

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World (Nature's Meaning)

In a fluid narrative style, Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World links environmentalism with colonialism and makes the strong case, through well-documented examples, that rapid economic change has caused an environmental and population crisis. Curtin also offers a unique interpretation of familiar history with surprising conclusions about the relationship between colonial attitudes and environmentalism. Today, more than ever, globalization demands that the so-called third world not face their social and environmental issues alone. This book offers clear examples of environmental strategies for our new globalized culture and is not only ideal for courses in environmental ethics, globalization, and environmental politics; it offers students and general readers a practical guide for change.

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

In a fluid narrative style, Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World links environmentalism with colonialism and makes the strong case, through well-documented examples, that rapid economic change has caused an environmental and population crisis. Curtin also offers a unique interpretation of familiar history with surprising conclusions about the relationship between colonial attitudes and environmentalism. Today, more than ever, globalization demands that the so-called third world not face their social and environmental issues alone. This book offers clear examples of environmental strategies for our new globalized culture and is not only ideal for courses in environmental ethics, globalization, and environmental politics; it offers students and general readers a practical guide for change.

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INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE.(Value Inquiry Book Series 88) (Philosophy of Peace)

Violence can be physical and psychological. It can characterize personal actions, forms of group activity, and abiding social and political policy. This book includes all of these aspects within its focus on institutional forms of violence. Institution is also a broad category, ranging from formal arrangements such as the military, the criminal code, the death penalty and prison system, to more amorphous but systemic situations indicated by parenting, poverty, sexism, work, and racism. Violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it; its institutional forms pervade our relational lives. We are all participants in it as victims and perpetrators. The chapters in this book were written in the hope that violence can be explicated, even if not fully understood, and that such clarification can help us in devising less violent forms of living, even if it does not lead to its total abolition. The studies bring new aspects of violence to light and offer a number of suggestions for its remedy.

Institutional Violence.(Value Inquiry Book Series 88)

Brill/Rodopi

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Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship

Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World (Nature's Meaning)

Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World (Nature's Meaning)

Institutional Violence.(Value Inquiry Book Series 88)