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Harmonizing the rural Indigenous family: Mestiza gender trustees and the gendered modernization of rural Mexico

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 264-278, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The 2018 film Roma popularized the idea that domestic work is a site through which female employers and employees can support one another as they confront the relegation of reproductive labor to women. Echoes of this narrative can be heard in the workshops provided to Nahua men and women of the Huasteca region of Mexico by what I call gender ...
Raquel Pacheco
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on Bernard Matolino’s Contribution to Philosophy in Africa

open access: yesArụmarụka, 2022
This paper reflects on Bernard Matolino’s contribution to philosophy. For heuristic purposes, I stipulate a distinction between what we may call the negative and positive projects when considering a philosopher’s body of work. The ‘negative project’ of a
Motsamai MOLEFE
doaj   +1 more source

Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 21, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Abstract In the early 20th century, colonised people across empires rejected their status quo with visions and articulations of different emancipatory futures. The more radical and creative of these projects fused socialist thought with national, cultural or religious traditions. Grounded in ideas of equality, redistribution and common ownership, these
Layli Uddin
wiley   +1 more source

A Defence of Moderate Communitarianism: A Place of Rights in African Moral-Political Thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article attempts to defend Kwame Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism (MC) from the trenchant criticism that it is as defective as radical communitarianism (RC) since they both fail to take rights seriously. As part of my response,
Molefe, Motsamai
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Personhood and (Rectification) Justice in African Thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article invokes the idea of personhood (which it takes to be at the heart of Afrocommunitarian morality) to give an account of corrective/rectification justice.
Molefe, Motsamai
core   +1 more source

African Communitarianism and Difference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
There has been the recurrent suspicion that community, harmony, cohesion, and similar relational goods as understood in the African ethical tradition threaten to occlude difference.
A Adeyinka   +40 more
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Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico

open access: yesLaw &Policy, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 253-272, July 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper explores how the use of emergency powers by the US and Puerto Rican governments exacerbated the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and manufactured the conditions for furthering the multilayered economic, legal, political, and humanitarian crisis affecting Puerto Rico since 2006. The paper discusses three cases.
Jose Atiles
wiley   +1 more source

Research on dead human bodies: African perspectives on moral status

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 67-75, March 2023., 2023
Abstract A useful concept that can be invoked to resolve complex bioethical issues is that of moral status (or, human dignity). In this article, we apply this concept to dead human bodies in order to support our view that research on such bodies is permissible.
Heidi Matisonn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Personhood and Rights in an African Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is generally accepted that the normative idea of personhood is central to African moral thought, but what has not been done in the literature is to explicate its relationship to the Western idea of rights.
Motsamai, Molefe
core   +1 more source

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