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The Resource Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths, edited by Everisto Benyera, (electronic resource)

Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths, edited by Everisto Benyera, (electronic resource)

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Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American lens that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality. In other words, it emphasises the importance of situatedness by thinking from rather than about or with Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives. The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find ‘African solutions for African problems’.--
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1st ed. 2020.
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1 online resource (X, 194 pages)
Contents
  • Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion
  • Justice
  • Human Rights
  • Leadership
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9783030251437
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http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25143-7
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Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths
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Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa
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Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths
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edited by Everisto Benyera
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Language
eng
Summary
Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a ‘new’ imagination. By exploring a wide range of issues concerning justice, human rights and leadership, this book makes two major contributions to the extant literature in each of these areas. Firstly, as a project in decoloniality, it constitutes an ‘epistemic break’ from mainstream logics and approaches to understanding state, society and development in Africa, presenting an approach that is filtered through a Euro-American lens that reifies the hegemony of a particular spatio-temporality. In other words, it emphasises the importance of situatedness by thinking from rather than about or with Africa. And secondly, it addresses a fundamental shortcoming in decolonial thought, which is often criticised for rejecting western paradigms of thought without providing viable alternatives. The issues covered include state failure in Africa, the geopolitics of US and NATO military interventions on the continent, individual states’ responses to international law, indigenous moral political leadership, authentic inclusion of marginalised voices in development practice, an endogenous approach to environmental ethics, and a spiritualist reflection on the need for Africa to chart her own course to political, social and economic redemption. By searching for alternative paths to justice, human rights and leadership, this book represents an effort to actualise the core vision of the African Renaissance to find ‘African solutions for African problems’.--
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  • Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,
  • Springer eBooks.
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  • Africa-Politics and government
  • Social justice
  • Political leadership
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Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths, edited by Everisto Benyera, (electronic resource)
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http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25143-7
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Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion -- Justice -- Human Rights -- Leadership
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1st ed. 2020.
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1 online resource (X, 194 pages)
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Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths, edited by Everisto Benyera, (electronic resource)
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http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25143-7
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online resource
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Contents
Conceptualizing Justice, Human Rights and Civil Religion -- Justice -- Human Rights -- Leadership
Control code
978-3-030-25143-7
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unknown
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Extent
1 online resource (X, 194 pages)
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9783030251437
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access
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(OCoLC)1112152852

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