Culture and Difference

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20031628
AutoresFarah Godrej (0000-0003-1613-5316, University of California, Riverside, autor correspondente)
EditoresTeena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M Meyer (0000-0003-3565-7435), David Schlosberg (0000-0003-3547-919X)
Ano2016
Data de publicação2016-03-07
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoOxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.10
OpenAlexW2351649441
ISBN9780199685271
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

Can non-Western traditions offer the West intellectual resources to re-conceptualize the human–nature relationship, and transform our ethical relationship to the natural world? This essay argues that there have been two kinds of approaches to this question: first, an almost purely ethical approach that is termed “civilizational,” which follows the logic inherent in biocentric critiques of Western anthropocentrism and instrumentalism; and second, a more political approach which is called “neo-Gandhian,” which takes inspiration from the political thinking of Mahatma Gandhi. After describing each approach at length, the chapter argues that the latter is a more sophisticated way to turn to non-Western traditions for environmentally just solutions to the global environmental crisis. It not only avoids reproducing the binaries and dichotomies to which the former approach seems indebted, but it also marries normative environmental concerns with practical, material concerns and explicitly political critique and action

Action (physics) · Anthropocentrism · Dichotomy · Ecological crisis · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Instrumentalism · Natural (archaeology) · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Western thought · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics