Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship
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"Curtin offers an important contribution to environmental philosophy. Though concerned with proposing an American environmental ethic, he shows that such an ethic requires an intercultural context." --Choice
" . . . this is a very important book, raising serious questions for development theorists and environmentalists alike." --The Boston Book Review
Just who is Chinnagounder? He is one man in India, trying to deal with the competing stresses of postcolonialism and environmentalism--a man to whom Deane Curtin introduces us in this sophisticated work of public philosophy which explores questions such as: Can indigenous peoples define the terms of change for themselves? What impact does postcolonialism have on population, social justice, and womens rights? How can inhabitants of our global village balance the preservation of wild nature and the ever-increasing need for access to land and to safe food and water?
About the Author
Deane Curtin is Raymong and Florence Sponberg Chair of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. He is co-editor of Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food (Indiana University Press). He has lived and taught in India, Japan, and Italy and has published on deep ecology, ecofeminism, and contemporary Gandhian resistance to development.
Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship,Deane W. Curtin,Indiana University Press,0253335760,Applied Ethics,Development - Economic Development,Development - Sustainable Development,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Studies,Environmental ethics,Ethics & Moral Philosophy,General,Human Ecology,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Postcolonialism
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