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Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of
cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and
their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw
connections between humans and the entire process of global food
production, focusing on the broad implications these processes have
within the geographical and cultural context of India. Each chapter
analyzes and critiques existing agricultural/food practices, and
representations of aspects of food through various media (such as
film, literature, and new media) as they relate to global issues
generally and Indian contexts specifically, correcting the omission
of analyses focused on the Global South in virtually all of the
work that has been done on "Anthropocene ecologies of food." This
unique volume employs an ecocritical framework that connects food
with the land, in physical and virtual communities, and the book as
a whole interrogates the meanings and implications of the
Anthropocene itself.
The book offers twelve cases of ethics relating to ecology and
culture. The twelve cases presented in the twelve essays, are
written by eminent scholars from India, USA, Canada and Egypt.
Employing various ecocritical frameworks, the writers have tried to
understand/analyse literary, cinematic and other cultural texts and
contexts. The volume argues that the principles of ethics are as
dynamic as culture and nature. Any ecological
perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their
cultural contexts and thus need a culture-specific scrutiny to
understand the ethics of ecoculture.
This book features ten critical essays on ecodocumentaries written
by eminent scholars from India, USA, Ireland, Finland and Turkey in
the area of ecocinema studies. Situating social documentaries with
explicit ecological form and content, the volume takes relational
positions on political, cultural and conservational aspects of
natures and cultures in various cultural contexts. Documentaries
themed around issues such as electronic waste, animal rights, land
ethics, pollution of river, land grabbing, development and exotic
plants are some of the topics ecocritiqued in this volume.
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