Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Subtitle: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781789203592
Subjects: Responsibility; Ethics; Philosophy, african; Africa, social conditions
Description: "How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection of essays offers insight that develops a stronger grasp on the interaction between moral practices and discourses, and specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope"--