The Palgrave handbook of Ubuntu, inequality and sustainable development / Ezra Chitando, Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Sophia Chirongoma, Musa W. Dube, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chitando, Ezra, editor.

Okyere-Manu, Beatrice, editor.

Chirongoma, Sophia, editor.

Dube, Musa Wenkosi, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ubuntu (Philosophy).

Equality.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 892 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Other Title:

Handbook of Ubuntu, inequality and sustainable development

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]

Contents:

Chapter 1 : Introduction: Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development

Chapter 2 Ubuntu Ethics as a Paradigm for Human Development in Africa

Chapter 3 Ubuntu and a New Global Order based on Social Justice: Insights from Oliver Mtukudzi's Music

Chapter 4: Teaching Botho for Global Human Development

Chapter 5 The Common Moral Position as Conversational: Re-interpreting the Hunhu/Ubuntu Moral Theory

Chapter 6 : African Humanitas: Ubuntu and the Global Response to Climate Change

Chapter 7 Mother Earth, Indigenous Spirituality and Ubuntu: Ideas for Meeting Contemporary Environmental Challenges

Chapter 8 : Ghanaian Ubuntu and Malaysian Confucian Sustainable Plastic Waste Management and Leadership Styles in Afro-Asiatic Intercultural Perspective

Chapter 9 : Solidarity Between Generations: An African Approach to Climate Change

Chapter 10 : Ubuntu and Unsustainable Environmental Practices in Uganda: The Case of Sand Mining and Rice Farming

Chapter 11: Integrating Ubuntu Language in the Paris Agreement

Chapter 12: Ubuntu, women's water rights and access to the blue economy in South Africa

Chapter 13: Ubuntu, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Justice

Chapter 14 : Equity and the Ubuntu Worldview: Navigating Shared Responsibilities and Fostering Solidarity in the Face of Inequality in Ireland and the United Kingdom

Chapter 15 : Ubuntu and decolonisation

Chapter 16: Ubuntu, Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: Poverty as Impossibility

Chapter 17 : Healthy ageing and Ubuntu in the Context of COVID- 19 and Future Pandemics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 18 : Health for All: Harnessing Ubuntu Ethics for Promoting Competitive Pharmaceutical Production and Health Equity in Africa

Chapter 19 : Foreign Aid in Africa: The case for an Ubuntu-inspired Relational ethics

Chapter 20 : Ubuntu as a philosophy advancing Human Rights: The Humanistic Social Work thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 21 Utilising the Ubuntu Philosophy among Street Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview

Chapter 22 Ubuntu and Sustainable Cities in Africa

Chapter 23 Ubuntu philosophy & the Sustainable Development Goals: A theo-afro-analytical review

Chapter 24 The Practice of Ubuntu in the United States and COVID-19: The Case of Zimbabwean Immigrants

Chapter 25 Immigrants' integration in the Global North: Ubuntu-informed social work

Chapter 26 Fostering Harmony: Exploring Botho Ethical Principles as an Antidote to Xenophobia in Botswana

Chapter 27 To Live or Leave: Rethinking Ubuntu and Migration in a Context of Uncertainty- The Zimbabwean Case

Chapter 28 Ubuntu: An anti-racist and pro-equality African philosophy?

Chapter 29 Racism dehumanises the racist: A Deep Dive into the African philosophy of Ubuntu and concepts of Transactional Analysis

Chapter 30 Confronting Inequalities in Education: The Symbiosis of Ubuntu and the Nordic Model

Chapter 31 Ubuntu, Race and Xenophobia

Chapter 32 Ubuntu Virtues as a Coping Mechanism in the Face of Racism and Discrimination

Chapter 33 Poverty, Ubuntu and Sustainable Development

Chapter 34 Ubuntu, Inequality and Poverty in South Africa

Chapter 35 Ubuntu as a possible virtuous weapon in the fight against poverty and inequalities

Chapter 36 Ubuntu, Disability Inclusion and Sustainable Development: Breaking the Disability-Poverty Nexus in Africa

Chapter 37 The Interface between Ubuntu and Patriotism in the Context of Inclusive Development in Africa

Chapter 38 Ubuntu and Ethical Implications for Global Transformative Justice Movements

Chapter 39 Ubuntu, Diversity and Inclusiveness: Afro-descendants in the United States

Chapter 40 From Ubuntu to Du Boisian 'Pan-African Ubuntu' in the era of global inequalities

Chapter 41 Ubuntu's Potential to Inform Anti-Racism Practices and Policies in UK Higher Education

Chapter 42 Ubuntu and Social Choice Theory: an ethical interrogation of group decision-making from an African perspective

Chapter 43 Ubuntu and Gender Inequality: Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukambo II's Appropriation of Ubuntu in Promoting Gender Equality in the Soli Chiefdom in Zambia

Chapter 44 De- ethnicisation, De-masculinisation and Re-Vitalization of the Ubuntu Paradigm for Sustainable African Development

Chapter 45 Phallic Scripts of Ubuntu (mukadzi chaiye (a 'real' woman): Confronting the 'De Jure powers' that undermine progress in selected literary texts

Chapter 46 The Ethics of Ubuntu and Gender Justice Among African Women Theologians

Chapter 47 Ubuntu, Gender equality and Sustainable Development in Africa: An African Feminist Perspective

Chapter 48 Ubuntu, Reconciliation and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa

Chapter 49 Women's Mushandirapamwe (Collectivism), Ubuntu and Sustainable Development in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Chapter 50 Ubuntu and Gender inequality in Africa

Chapter 51 Towards global gender justice: Interrogating Ubuntu for insights and practical application to women's equality and Empowerment

Chapter 52 Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development: Emerging Issues.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 4, 2025).

ISBN:

9783031695735

3031695739

Publisher Number:

90101705713

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.