Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders. The contemporary global order is fluid, increasingly unstable, and riven with borders at countless and complex points.Religious, political, and ecological borders hold particular significance, where interactions carry compounding social and environmental consequences.As the first collected volume to look at these three types of borders, both from an interdisciplinary perspective and as distinct forms, it demonstrates the value of thinking across borders as an ethical project.Taking Simone Weil’s perspective that every separation is a link, it posits that separations within sovereignty, species, and religion become links between political, ecological, and theological perspectives, and that boundaries within human life have taken on ecological significance in the age of the Anthropocene.In this fra