Elvis Imafidon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4245633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elvis Imafidon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elvis |
| FAMILY NAME | Imafidon |
| SIGNATURE | IMAFIDON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambrose Alli University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2479-7996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa
«The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditional beliefs, literary fiction, radio, music, photography, film and the arts can bring about social change, and also educate publics about albinism.» (Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural Studies) «Highly intriguing and skillfully nuanced,…
Shifting Wrongs to Rights
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
The Other as Unbeautiful
The paper analyses the otherness of albinism in African cultures with specific focus on the perception of the albinotic body as disgust and as being incapable of beauty. I argue that the ontological and aesthetic representations of albinism in African traditions, although not factual, have real consequences for persons with albinism (pwas) and their immediate caregivers as they implicitly or explicitly assimilate these representations and live by…
Alterity, African Modernity, and the Critique of Change
Africa and the Unfolding of Difference
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
Are we finished with the ethnophilosophy debate? A multi-perspective conversation
In line with the tradition of the Conversational School of Philosophy, this essay provides a rare and unique space of discourse for the authors to converse about the place of the ‘ethno’ in African philosophy. This conversation is a revisit, a renewal of the key positions that have coloured the ethnophilosophy debate by the conversers who themselves are notable contributors to arguments for and against the importance of ethnophilosophy in the unf…
Ontologized ethics
This book examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is -- be it as an individual or a group of persons -- does, or should, determine one's concept of the good.
Ontologized Ethics
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to …
Ontologized Ethics
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to …
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Ontologized Ethics
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to …
Ontologized Ethics
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to …
Ontologized ethics
This book examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is -- be it as an individual or a group of persons -- does, or should, determine one's concept of the good.
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
Are we finished with the ethnophilosophy debate? A multi-perspective conversation
In line with the tradition of the Conversational School of Philosophy, this essay provides a rare and unique space of discourse for the authors to converse about the place of the ‘ethno’ in African philosophy. This conversation is a revisit, a renewal of the key positions that have coloured the ethnophilosophy debate by the conversers who themselves are notable contributors to arguments for and against the importance of ethnophilosophy in the unf…
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
The Other as Unbeautiful
The paper analyses the otherness of albinism in African cultures with specific focus on the perception of the albinotic body as disgust and as being incapable of beauty. I argue that the ontological and aesthetic representations of albinism in African traditions, although not factual, have real consequences for persons with albinism (pwas) and their immediate caregivers as they implicitly or explicitly assimilate these representations and live by…
Alterity, African Modernity, and the Critique of Change
Africa and the Unfolding of Difference
Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa
«The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditional beliefs, literary fiction, radio, music, photography, film and the arts can bring about social change, and also educate publics about albinism.» (Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural Studies) «Highly intriguing and skillfully nuanced,…
Shifting Wrongs to Rights
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism
The lived experience of albinism is profoundly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDOH). Threats to the security and well-being of persons with albinism should be viewed through a human rights lens that encompasses the explanatory frameworks at play
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Albinism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)