Environmental activists in Kerala, India, often contest the boundaries between the ethical and the non-ethical, flouting widely-accepted norms while ethicalizing usually trivial aspects of everyday life. The resulting ambiguity presents an opportunity to explore a problem that has troubled the recent ethical turn in anthropology: how do we know ethics when we see it? Analyzing seemingly ethicalizing moves during an environmental awareness campaign, I show how ambiguous evaluations can become persistent demands to account for one’s actions, even for those who protest, transgress, mock, or otherwise resist them. This process sheds light on the limits of freedom in ethical life and, thus, contributes to debates on how to define ethics for the purposes of anthropological research.

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粘性伦理：印度喀拉拉邦的环境行动主义和伦理自由的局限

印度喀拉拉邦的环保主义者经常挑战道德与非道德之间的界限，contest视广泛接受的规范，同时道德化日常生活中通常琐碎的方面。由此产生的歧义性为探讨困扰人类学最近的伦理学转向的问题提供了机会：当我们看到伦理学时，我们如何知道伦理学？通过分析一项在环境意识运动中看似道德化的举动，我展示了模棱两可的评估如何成为要求人们行动的持久要求，甚至对于那些抗议，违法，嘲笑或以其他方式抵抗行动的人也是如此。这一过程揭示了伦理生活中自由的局限性，因此有助于就如何为人类学研究目的界定伦理问题进行辩论。