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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

Nelson Mandela and the Power of Ubuntu

open access: yesReligions, 2012
Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to fighting for the freedom of his South African kin of all colors against the institution of apartheid. He spent twenty-seven years fighting from within prison, only gaining his freedom when his fellow South Africans ...
Claire E. Oppenheim
doaj   +1 more source

An Afro-Communal Ethic for Good Governance

open access: yesActa Universitatis Danubius: Administratio, 2021
The underdevelopment of most African states and the attendant poverty and general social disorder that characterize her polity, is a product of failure of leadership.
Uwaezuoke Precious Obioha
doaj  

The ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and transhumanism: a personhood-based approach

open access: yesData & Policy
In this article, I will consider the moral issues that might arise from the possibility of creating more complex and sophisticated autonomous intelligent machines or simply artificial intelligence (AI) that would have the human capacity for moral ...
Amara Esther Chimakonam
doaj   +1 more source

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

CORPORATE FUTURES, ENERGY TRANSITION, AND NATURAL PROSTHETICS IN COLOMBIA'S CESAR MINING CORRIDOR

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 134-162, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the socioecological transformations of mining and post‐mining landscapes in the mining corridor of the Cesar Department, northern Colombia. When an open pit mine is about to close or has recently closed, companies promote post‐mining strategies framed as ecosystem restoration and social compensation.
JUAN PABLO VERA LUGO
wiley   +1 more source

What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 268-279, December 2025.
Abstract This article suggests that the concept of global health – and to an extent the field that it designates ‐ is problematic in various ways. Within public health, the concept of the ‘public’ has been widely investigated. However, “global health” has been introduced in academic, policy, and public discussion with comparably lower level of ...
Alberto Giubilini
wiley   +1 more source

MY NEIGHBOR THE GRINGO: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 726-752, November 2025.
ABSTRACT During the past two decades, foreigners have acquired housing stock in many of Rio de Janeiro's oldest and most iconic favelas, or self‐built neighborhoods, and invested in capital improvements, with an eye toward turning private residences into lodging accommodations.
ALESSANDRO M. ANGELINI, GARETH A. JONES
wiley   +1 more source

Let Us Build a Table: Decolonization, Institutional Hierarchies, and Prestige in Academic Communities

open access: yesPhilosophies
If global higher education is truly committed to decolonization, there will have to be some radical changes. A decolonized university would increase the freedom of students and staff through undoing the legacy of the past, a past which was exclusive and ...
Rianna Oelofsen
doaj   +1 more source

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