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Call for Publications Theme: African Environmental Ethics Publication: Edited Book Deadline: 30.6.2017 __________________________________________________ Rationale The intention of this project is to produce a book that showcases African environmental ethics as a developing discipline of African philosophy. The focus of the book is on African environmental ethics. Broadly, it should address the questions around the African conception/s of environmental ethical thinking. It is hoped that authors will critically interpret various, and often neglected African conceptions of reality to come up with plausible African conceptions of environmental ethical thinking. The book is intended to affirm that Africans have unique contributions that can help humanity deal with the growing global environmental crisis. In the past few years, there has been a considerable body of literature that has been written on African metaphysical and ethical thinking in general. In some of these works, allusion is made to the centrality of African ethics as the basis for comprehending various applied ethical scenarios such as those in the contexts of business, the environment, the bio-medical area and the legal fraternity among others, However, not much has been written on African environmental ethical perspectives on the moral status of nature. The proposed book is intended to augment the currently limited, but growing literature in the field of African environmental philosophy and ethics. Themes Themes for the proposed book should include, but not necessarily limited to addressing the following questions: - What is the African understanding of nature? - How can African conceptions of ethics on moral status of nature, be broadly conceptualised? - What are the boundaries of the African moral world? - What ought to be the relationship between human beings and nature? - Should human beings have moral obligations towards aspects of nature, such as animate beings and even non-animate beings such as the components of the physical environment? - Communitarian thinking and Environmental Ethics - Is there a place for animal rights in African ethics? - Does nature have interests that are independent to those of human beings? - How could the ideas such Being, telos, well-being, welfare etc be understood within the context of African environmental ethical thinking? - To what extent can African ethics meaningfully inform current environmental issues like global warming and climate change? - What do African Conceptions of Environmental Justice look like? Interested contributors are encouraged to submit their chapter proposals to the editor of this book, Dr Munamato Chemhuru (Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg): munamatochemh...@gmail.com Important Dates 1. The deadline for submission of abstracts of not more that 300 words in length is 30 June 2017. 2. Contributors whose abstracts will be accepted should be prepared to attend and present their work during a two-day workshop on the book project on 28 and 29 September 2017 at the University of Johannesburg. 3. Adjusted manuscripts (after the workshop) of not more than 8000 words in length (including reference material and footnotes) should be submitted to the editor for peer reviewing by 30 November 2017. 4. Articles must be in word, and double-spaced with Times New Roman, font size 12. Proposed Publisher Negotiations are underway to have this proposed book published by a reputable American publisher. Contact: Dr Munamato Chemhuru Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy Faculty of Humanities University of Johannesburg & Lecturer in Philosophy Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Great Zimbabwe University Box 1235 Masvingo Zimbabwe Cell: +263 773 900812 +27 81 4877804 Email: munamatochemh...@gmail.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________