Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 1. Nature and Culture: Living at the Margins
1. Turning South
2. The British Utilitarians and the Invention of the "Third World"
3. War and Peace: The Politics of Agricultural "Modernization"
4. Gandhian Legacies: Indigenous Resistance to "Development" in Contemporary India and Mexico
5. Recognizing Women's Environmental Expertise
Part 2: Radical First World Environmental Philosophy: A New Colonialism?
6. Callicott's Land Ethic
7. A State of Mind Like Water: Ecosophy T and the Buddhist Traditions
8. Ecological Feminism and the Place of Caring
Part 3. Democratic Pluralism
9. Democractic Discourse in a Morally Pluralistic World
10. Putting Down Roots: Ecocommunities and the Practice of Freedom
Notes
References

Promotional Information

Explores cultural conflicts over economic development and proposes a new, postcolonial environmental ethic.

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.

Reviews

" ... 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 "This is a very important book, raising serious questions for development theorists and environmentalists alike." Boston Book Review