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Bloomsbury, 2022
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019
Widespread cross-cultural and cross-ideological agreement on the justifiable limits of war has b... more Widespread cross-cultural and cross-ideological agreement on the justifiable limits of war has become an increasingly complex yet vital element of global peace and conflict policies. Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Danny Singh bring together a truly international cohort of philosophers, ethicists, political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, and other scholars to address the morality of war from a comparative perspective.
While conceptions of when to enter war (jus ad bellum) and how to fight war (jus in bello) have been well researched in Western liberal contexts, non-Western philosophies have been largely excluded from debate. This volume seeks to correct that imbalance by addressing concrete examples alongside concepts of Confucian Yi/Rightness, Ahimsa, feminism, class struggles, Ubuntu, anarchism, pacifism, Buddhism, Islam, Jihad, among others.
Comparative Just War Theory provides a global conceptual framework to deal with the morality of war in our modern world. With fresh insights into how the normative problems that arise from just war can be addressed, the book will be a valuable resource for a wide variety of students, scholars, and policy-makers.
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This book focuses on multiculturalism, racism and the interests of nonhuman animals. Each are, in... more This book focuses on multiculturalism, racism and the interests of nonhuman animals. Each are, in their own right, rapidly growing and controversial fields of enquiry, but how do multiculturalism and racism intersect with the debate concerning animals and their interests? This a deceptively simple question but on that is becoming ever more pressing as we examine our societal practices in a pluralistic world. Collating the work of a diverse group of academics from across the world, the book includes writing on a wide range of subjects and addressing contemporary issues in this critical arena. Subjects covered include multiculturalism, group rights and the limits of tolerance; ethnocentrism and animals; racism and discrimination and non-Western alternatives to animal rights and welfare. The book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and advanced students as well as range of social justice organisations, government institutions, animal activist organisations and environmental groups.
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This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including ... more This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies. It puts together perspectives that have been largely neglected as valid normative ways to address the political and moral questions that arise from the coexistence of different cultures in the same geographical space. The essays in this volume cover both historical perspectives, taking in the work of Hobbes, Tocqueville and Nietzsche among others, and contemporary Eastern and Western approaches, including Marxism, anarchism, Islam, Daoism, Indian and African philosophies.
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Ethnicity and Critical Race Theory
Ethnicities , 2021
This short piece is a reply to Galgut and Glover’s comment on my article. I put forward two respo... more This short piece is a reply to Galgut and Glover’s comment on my article. I put forward two responses to their contentions. Firstly, I uphold that they misinterpret my argument, attribute to me claims I do not make, and offer responses that do not challenge my core thesis. Secondly, I demonstrate that the examples of racialization I provide are relevant for their proposal.
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Kritika Kultura , 2021
The instrumentalization of rights and interests for furthering political and economic ends is a c... more The instrumentalization of rights and interests for furthering political and economic ends is a common phenomenon in contemporary societies. This phenomenon of instrumentalization is also present in animal protection law. In this article, I explore how American animal law is instrumentalized to privilege the animal farming industry and disadvantage disempowered groups. I present this argument by showing that the United States’ law treats animal farming practices differently from other animal practices. Then, I argue that there is no plausible moral justification for this difference in treatment. I finish by presenting two sets of arguments to show that the hidden purpose of this different treatment is to facilitate and maintain the ongoing functioning of the animal farm industry.
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Ethnicities , 2020
In 2015, some faculty at the University of Cape Town made a proposal to the Faculty of Humanities... more In 2015, some faculty at the University of Cape Town made a proposal to the Faculty of Humanities that no animal product be served at faculty events. Many black faculty members contested the proposal on the grounds that it was racist and disavowed the importance of the proposal. In this article, I wish to argue that the proposal’s approach neglects the racialized history of animal advocacy in South Africa, while also being carried out at an inopportune time and context. Consequently, it racializes the debate on animal advocacy in South Africa to the extent that it contributes to the African faculty’s disavowal of the proposal and of animal injustice in general. Nevertheless, I also argue that the proposal could have been more successful if it integrated racial justice concerns and African elements. This is the case because there are good reasons for Africans to support animal justice. Particularly, in the case of South Africa, it can be argued that addressing animal justice is beneficial for improving Africans’ health, a contribution to the elimination of environmental injustice and helpful for Africanizing institutions.
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Educational Philosophy and Theory , 2021
In recent years, different places in the world have witnessed demands for the decolonization of e... more In recent years, different places in the world have witnessed demands for the decolonization of education. Nevertheless, it is not completely clear how this ought to be carried out. There are various factors that influence what such decolonization may entail, including the geographical place for decolonization and the discipline being decolonized. This requires a specific analysis of each context. In this article, I wish to make a proposal for how to carry out the decolonization of philosophy teaching at the university level in the African context, with a special focus on South Africa. I propose that more African philosophy be included in the curricula, as well as the integration of teaching and assessing methods that reflect African culture. Further, I argue that those seeking for decolonization ought to try to pursue it incrementally, given that it is the best strategy to achieve decolonization.
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Civil Szemle - Civil Review , 2021
In an increasingly multicultural world, education ought to respond to the diversity in the classr... more In an increasingly multicultural world, education ought to respond to the diversity in the classroom. Philosophers of multiculturalism have tried to offer different theories about how to educate children from different cultures. Chandran Kukathas, for example, has argued that, from a liberal point of view, minimum, four one ought to give nearly total freedom to parents from minority cultures to educate their children as they please. This article analyses and contests the liberal/libertarian perspective defended by Kukathas. I argue that Kukathas underestimates the negative impact that his laissez-faire, exit based approach may have not children. In contrast with his view, I uphold a perspective that is inspired both in republican and liberal values. Particularly, I defend that children ought to be educated for non-domination, which in practice entails gaining the capability for exercising their right to exit and actively participate in the making of their communities’ norms through voice.
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Philosophia Africana , 2021
The current pandemic is likely to have a stronger negative impact on poorer countries, including ... more The current pandemic is likely to have a stronger negative impact on poorer countries, including Africa. This poverty is, in fact, having an impact on the ability to respond of African countries to the health measures that ought to be taken to address the pandemic. In this article, I contend that colonial legacies have a role in the inability to respond to the current crisis; hence, according to an Ubuntu ethic, European governments have duties of aid towards Africans during this period.
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Philosophy & Social Criticism , 2021
Some philosophers and activists have been skeptical about the relevance of pursuing animal jus... more Some philosophers and activists have been skeptical about the relevance of pursuing animal justice in order to progress racial justice. Routinely, these skeptics have argued that allying animal and racial justice struggles is politically unfeasible, counter-productive, distractive and disruptive for the achievement of racial justice. The conclusion of these skeptics is that animal justice is either a barrier or irrelevant to racial justice and, as such, activists should not ally both struggles. In this article, I wish to contest the arguments that forward the idea that these struggles should not be addressed together, especially in the case of addressing anti-black racial injustices. I offer a negative argumentative strategy to forward my thesis; namely, I offer reasons to reject the arguments that are skeptical about the relevance of addressing animal justice to achieve progress in racial justice. I contend that racial injustice is partly fueled by the capacity contract. The capacity contract, in turn, is intertwined with the way humans treat animals. Owing to the fact that speciesism fuels the contract that incites racism, then addressing speciesism is instrumentally relevant for overcoming racial injustices. Moreover, I demonstrate in this article, that not only are there various ways that anti-racist and anti-speciesist struggles are inter-connected, but also that the project of addressing them together is politically feasible and desirable.
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry , 2021
Animal advocates world-wide have been accused of campaigns immured in racism. Some authors have a... more Animal advocates world-wide have been accused of campaigns immured in racism. Some authors have argued that for animal advocates to avoid this accusation they should simultaneously engage with racial discrimination issues when advocating for animal welfare/rights. This prescription has been mostly explored in the context of the Global North and by looking at Western normative theory. In this article I address this issue but by looking at the context of South Africa and analysing the prescriptions from an Afro-communitarian ethic. I conclude that this ethic prescribes that there is a positive duty to engage in racial discrimination issues and, if one does not do so, a violation of some negative duties occurs.
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Philosophia Africana , 2021
Islamophobia is a form of prejudice significantly widespread around the world and especially in W... more Islamophobia is a form of prejudice significantly widespread around the world and especially in Western societies. To date, very little research in moral and political philosophy has been done to explain why Islamophobia is morally wrong. This article has the objective of addressing this gap in the literature. In particular, the aim of this article is to explain why Islamophobia is morally wrong, articulating an argument based on an African value-system. The African value-system presented is of consequentialist pedigree, and I conclude that at least part of why Islamophobia is morally wrong is because it causes disharmony.
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Revista de Letras, 2020
Richard Burton’s The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860), Volume I has been studied as an examp... more Richard Burton’s The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860), Volume I has been studied as an example of British Imperial values regarding the settling in Africa in the late nineteenth century. Broadly speaking, most works have focused on how the text expresses these ideas and very little work has been carried out on researching the meanings of the imagery used in the text. In this short piece, I look at how the original frontispiece of The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860), Volume I is revealing of colonial desires and civilizing missions. Particularly, I argue that the image reveals a projection of white through the expression of sexual desires towards the black body, settling fantasies and civilizing mission goals.
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Society and Animals, 2020
A topic in contemporary political philosophy that has recently received substantial attention is ... more A topic in contemporary political philosophy that has recently received substantial attention is whether or not minorities have the right to mistreat animals. Mostly the debate has focused on minority practices in the West, such as Muslim religious slaughtering. However, other minority contexts, especially Iberian ones, have been largely ignored. In this article, the emphasis is placed on the Portuguese case study at the center of current debates in political philosophy, to assess whether this cultural practice ought to be banned or not. The paper does this by looking at three arguments routinely used in these debates. These arguments are that Portuguese bullfighting ought to be allowed because it plays an economic role in the community; it helps to address social prejudice; and it promotes friendship. These three arguments are rejected, and instead it is defended that bullfighting, in the Portuguese case, should be banned.
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Ethnicities, 2019
In this article, I argue that some of the campaigns that People for the Ethical Treatment of Anim... more In this article, I argue that some of the campaigns that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) carried out in the USA are white normative and that the presence of this normative whiteness is symptomatic of the same larger problem in animal advocacy. I contend that PETA’s campaigns are white normative for two sets of reasons. First, PETA’s campaigns promote racist hierarchies; second, their campaigns contribute to black people’s disengagement from animal justice, undermining the pursuit of black justice. Further, I argue that, even though PETA’s campaigns are symptomatic of how many animal advocates are white normative, this does not need to be the case, for there are advocacy alternatives that resist normative whiteness.
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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2018
Bob Fischer has written a reply to my article ‘Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’’.... more Bob Fischer has written a reply to my article ‘Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’’. In this article, Fischer contends that my arguments whereby animal abolitionism engages in acts of racism without racists are mistaken. I wish to reply to Fischer’s objections in this article, through four sets of contentions: i) Fischer’s arguments reveal some misunderstandings in terms of the concept of racism and, particularly, of ‘racism without racists’; ii) his arguments also underestimate the burdens suffered by individuals who wish to become vegan; iii) Fischer’s views on infantilisation lead to counter-intuitive conclusions; iv) and Fischer’s counter-argument against my neo-colonial critique of abolitionism misunderstands the points made in my previous article.
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Anthropozoologica, 2018
A new trend in political theory is to question whether cultural practices clash with moral concer... more A new trend in political theory is to question whether cultural practices clash with moral concerns about animal welfare. On the one hand, there is widespread concern to protect cultural distinctiveness; on the other, cultural distinctiveness may mean treating animals in cruel ways. In this article, I articulate this debate using the case of the killing of a bull in the Ukweshwama practice from South Africa. By engaging with the literature on multiculturalism, I question whether Zulus in South Africa are entitled or not to practice the killing of a bull during Ukweshwama. I respond to this question affirmatively, by defending that for reasons of autonomy, moral loss and legal consistency, Zulus are entitled to continue their practice.
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Teaching Philosophy, 2018
In the last 3 years, there has been a worldwide increase in integrating African Philosophy into t... more In the last 3 years, there has been a worldwide increase in integrating African Philosophy into the philosophy curricula. Nevertheless, given that African Philosophy has been largely neglected by Western academia, many philosophers in the West who do wish to integrate it are unaware of how to do it. This article aims at addressing this issue by offering some recommendations on how to integrate African Philosophy into the curricula. Particularly, it offers recommendations based on how the History of Ancient Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Ethics and Political Philosophy have become integrated. Additionally, there is a recommendation for how to make an entirely new module based on African Political Philosophy.
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Education as Change, 2017
In a recent article in this journal, Vorster and Quinn offered a set of recommendations on how ac... more In a recent article in this journal, Vorster and Quinn offered a set of recommendations on how academic staff developers can advise university lecturers on decolonizing their curricula and methods. Their main advice was to integrate more African cultural elements into their teaching. However, Vorster and Quinn’s advice is rather general. In this paper, I wish to complement their advice by giving some specific recommendations on how the decolonization of education can happen in the field of philosophy.
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While conceptions of when to enter war (jus ad bellum) and how to fight war (jus in bello) have been well researched in Western liberal contexts, non-Western philosophies have been largely excluded from debate. This volume seeks to correct that imbalance by addressing concrete examples alongside concepts of Confucian Yi/Rightness, Ahimsa, feminism, class struggles, Ubuntu, anarchism, pacifism, Buddhism, Islam, Jihad, among others.
Comparative Just War Theory provides a global conceptual framework to deal with the morality of war in our modern world. With fresh insights into how the normative problems that arise from just war can be addressed, the book will be a valuable resource for a wide variety of students, scholars, and policy-makers.
Ethnicity and Critical Race Theory
While conceptions of when to enter war (jus ad bellum) and how to fight war (jus in bello) have been well researched in Western liberal contexts, non-Western philosophies have been largely excluded from debate. This volume seeks to correct that imbalance by addressing concrete examples alongside concepts of Confucian Yi/Rightness, Ahimsa, feminism, class struggles, Ubuntu, anarchism, pacifism, Buddhism, Islam, Jihad, among others.
Comparative Just War Theory provides a global conceptual framework to deal with the morality of war in our modern world. With fresh insights into how the normative problems that arise from just war can be addressed, the book will be a valuable resource for a wide variety of students, scholars, and policy-makers.
Although suffering is generally recognised as a pivotal element in speciesism and racism, little philosophical work has been done to explore the nature of their relation that goes beyond moral analysis.
This paper enters new, metaphysical territory by inquiring into what seem to be central aspects of racism and speciesism, and how they relate to suffering. Our contention is that common to racist-and speciesistproduced suffering is a characteristic prejudice that the suffering of the other is too different, inferior or unimportant than to matter.
majority of Portuguese have become normalised; consequently, leading to the reinforcement of some speciesist norms.
sophisticated moral theory hailing from the Global South. In this book, one of the theses he defends is that biotechnological enhancement is generally morally impermissible. In this article written for a book symposium on A Relational Moral Theory, we contest this view on biotechnological enhancement. By using a consequentialist version of relational ethics, we uphold that biotechnological enhancement favours and promotes the Metzian conception of social harmony. We also dispel some misinterpretations regarding enhancement, arguing that it neither leads to negative consequences nor leads to authoritarianism.
contracts with the pharmaceutical companies do not treat people as ends in themselves, there is no moral obligation to respect them.
reasonable to use this.