The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution. It highlights inequalities that relate to gender, climate change, the environment, race, migration, and the struggle against poverty. It reflects on how and the extent to which Ubuntu can be a strategic resource in pursuit of equality and justice.

Critical engagement with Sustainable Development Goal 10 from Ubuntu perspectives Proposes new directions for Ubuntu studies, in Africa and globally Fresh reflections on Ubuntu as a resource for social justice

Auteur

Ezra Chitando is Professor of History of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe, Knowledge Management Advisor at Faith to Action Network and Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Beatrice Okyere-Manu is an associate professor at the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. An author of numerous articles and chapters combining community engagement with scholarly research. Her edited and co-edited works include Intersecting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2018), African Values, Ethics, and Technology (2021), and, Development Ethics: An African Perspective (2023).

Sophia Chirongoma is currently an independent researcher. She was a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. She is an active member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her research interests and publications focus on the interface between culture, ecology, religion, health, development, and gender justice.

Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) and a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Her research interests include biblical and African literature, religion, gender, postcolonial, translation, HIV&AIDS, Botho/Ubuntu and Earth studies. She is the author and (co-)editor of numerous books. She is the current continental Coordinator of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (2019-2024); former president of the Society Biblical Literature (2023) and Professor Extraordinaire in the Institute of Gender UNISA.

Contenu

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.