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Earth Ethics from the Grassroots

Intends to construct an earth ethics from the grassroots in the crucible of subaltern political practice, invoking the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save Narmada Movement in India) as text, and proposes that the social movements are theological texts.

It further rejects all theological and ethical discourses mediated from detached and disembodied views from seemingly nowhere, and instead proposes alternative narratives informed by the oppositional gaze of the subalterns. Earth ethics from the grassroots is alternative as it subverts the prevailing social and ecological relations. It does not stop there. By demystifying the doctrine of the totality- 'there is no alternative' - earth ethics from the grassroots strives to create alternatives to celebrate the foretaste of a different world and to demonstrate that there are alternatives.

1. Introduction 2. The Crisis of Earth: A View from the Grassroots 3. The Narmada Saga: A Valley that Refuses to Die 4. Social Movements as Text: Subaltern Reflections on Epistemology 5. Mapping Grassroots Earth Ethics: Methodological Musings 6. Conclusion: Alternatives Unincorporated