Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans
Towards a Community-Based Ethic
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2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-56055-7 (ISBN)
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This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis. Of appeal to academics, research students and practitioners working in environmental studies, philosophy, human ecology, and island studies.
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and dominant place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis.
Contemporary research on the Sundarbans mainly focuses on the impending threat of climate change, natural disasters, as well as increasing human-animal conflict, conservation, and forest access debates, while scholarly works have mostly used environmental impact assessments to offer technocratic, symptom-driven solutions to address the crisis. Instead, this book argues for developing a nuanced understanding of the cause of the crisis by studying islanders’ narratives, rather than offering simplistic, symptom-driven measures that do not resolve the underlying issues. By employing a phenomenological research methodology and engaged philosophy framework the book captures the place-based narrative of the environmental changes in the region. This approach impels us to rethink what the Sundarbans is, how the crisis gets manifested in the everyday lives of the islanders, what differences there are in the narratives of the crisis between insiders and outsiders, and what kind of procedural changes are required to protect the Sundarbans as a living ecosystem instead of a natural museum.
The book’s phenomenological depth and theoretical clarity will elicit deep interest from within academia and among practitioners working in environmental studies, philosophy, human ecology, and island studies. The convergence of conceptual understandings and field narratives will also draw the interest of research students working in correlated fields.
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives and dominant place-making narratives to consider the root cause of the crisis.
Contemporary research on the Sundarbans mainly focuses on the impending threat of climate change, natural disasters, as well as increasing human-animal conflict, conservation, and forest access debates, while scholarly works have mostly used environmental impact assessments to offer technocratic, symptom-driven solutions to address the crisis. Instead, this book argues for developing a nuanced understanding of the cause of the crisis by studying islanders’ narratives, rather than offering simplistic, symptom-driven measures that do not resolve the underlying issues. By employing a phenomenological research methodology and engaged philosophy framework the book captures the place-based narrative of the environmental changes in the region. This approach impels us to rethink what the Sundarbans is, how the crisis gets manifested in the everyday lives of the islanders, what differences there are in the narratives of the crisis between insiders and outsiders, and what kind of procedural changes are required to protect the Sundarbans as a living ecosystem instead of a natural museum.
The book’s phenomenological depth and theoretical clarity will elicit deep interest from within academia and among practitioners working in environmental studies, philosophy, human ecology, and island studies. The convergence of conceptual understandings and field narratives will also draw the interest of research students working in correlated fields.
Kalpita Bhar Paul is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at Krea University, India. She began her career as an NGDO practitioner and then joined academia to bring her field experience to academic scholarship. Her work has been widely published in international journals and edited volumes, and she is an associate editor of the Environmental Values Journal.
1. Introduction 2. Phenomenology of Land and Land-Eater 3. Phenomenology of Land-Water-Scape 4. Place and Replace 5. Phenomenology of Accident 6. Saṃsāra and Community-based Ethic 7. Community-Based Ethic and Pro-Environmental Behavior 8. Beyond the Crisis of Imagination
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 4 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-56055-X / 103256055X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-56055-7 / 9781032560557 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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