Munamato Chemhuru
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Munamato Chemhuru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Munamato |
| FAMILY NAME | Chemhuru |
| SIGNATURE | CHEMHURU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Great Zimbabwe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9371-4605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conceptualising environmental justice through epistemic justice in Africa
Democracy, development and the ecological crisis in Africa
Environmental challenges and the place of African relational environmental ethics of Unhu/Ubuntu
Questions on understanding the connections between human beings and the natural environment have generally been addressed extensively. However, more effort still needs to be made to augment such research by considering how to further understand human-environment connections from ethical perspectives. In this work, I consider how the human-environment relationship might be approached differently by appealing to some underexplored relational values…
The Place of Indigenous Methods of Governance in Post-colonial Africa
African Environmental Ethics
The paradox of global environmental justice
While a relativist view of environmental ethics could be quite difficult to justify, it is also difficult to be so strict about the quest for global environmental justice. At the same time, even though the reality of environmental degradation is plain to see, most African traditional communities, and even their respective states at large, still wallow in poverty such that they remain in need of developing themselves if they are to reach the level…
An African Communitarian View of Epistemic Responsibility
In this article, I venture into a fairly underexplored area of African epistemic normativity. I seek to consider how the question of responsibility might be approached differently if values salient in African communitarian thinking are critically explored. I argue that while one may find almost a uniform framework for the determination of epistemic responsibility in different philosophical traditions based on the rational scheme, in the dominant …
African Communitarianism and Human Rights
That human rights are new, alien, and incompatible with African social and political reality is pervasive in much of African social and political thinking. This supposition is based on the assumption that African societies are inherently communitarian, and hence inconsiderate to the guaranteeing and safeguarding of individual human rights. However, I seek to dispel this essentialist notion in African social and political thinking. I consider how …
Gleaning the social contract theory from African communitarian philosophy
The social contract is one of the most influential political theories in Western philosophy. Although the social contract theory is mainly associated with a number of thinkers in the broad history of social and political philosophy, I am particularly focused on the social contract theory proffered by two British philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. While the social contract theory has mainly been influenced by these British philosophers, l…
Using the African Teleological View of Existence to Interpret Environmental Ethics
Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa
The question about the existence or non-existence of African philosophy has almost died a natural death in the past few years. It is now a question of African and non-African thinkers putting their attention on actually doing African philosophy instead of “flogging the dead horse” by continuing to grapple with the question about whether African philosophy exists or not. However, in that quest for doing African philosophy, only recently has there …
Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa
The question about the existence or non-existence of African philosophy has almost died a natural death in the past few years. It is now a question of African and non-African thinkers putting their attention on actually doing African philosophy instead of “flogging the dead horse” by continuing to grapple with the question about whether African philosophy exists or not. However, in that quest for doing African philosophy, only recently has there …
African Communitarianism and Human Rights
That human rights are new, alien, and incompatible with African social and political reality is pervasive in much of African social and political thinking. This supposition is based on the assumption that African societies are inherently communitarian, and hence inconsiderate to the guaranteeing and safeguarding of individual human rights. However, I seek to dispel this essentialist notion in African social and political thinking. I consider how …
Using the African Teleological View of Existence to Interpret Environmental Ethics
Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa
The question about the existence or non-existence of African philosophy has almost died a natural death in the past few years. It is now a question of African and non-African thinkers putting their attention on actually doing African philosophy instead of “flogging the dead horse” by continuing to grapple with the question about whether African philosophy exists or not. However, in that quest for doing African philosophy, only recently has there …
Gleaning the social contract theory from African communitarian philosophy
The social contract is one of the most influential political theories in Western philosophy. Although the social contract theory is mainly associated with a number of thinkers in the broad history of social and political philosophy, I am particularly focused on the social contract theory proffered by two British philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. While the social contract theory has mainly been influenced by these British philosophers, l…
African Communitarianism and Human Rights
That human rights are new, alien, and incompatible with African social and political reality is pervasive in much of African social and political thinking. This supposition is based on the assumption that African societies are inherently communitarian, and hence inconsiderate to the guaranteeing and safeguarding of individual human rights. However, I seek to dispel this essentialist notion in African social and political thinking. I consider how …
African Environmental Ethics
The paradox of global environmental justice
While a relativist view of environmental ethics could be quite difficult to justify, it is also difficult to be so strict about the quest for global environmental justice. At the same time, even though the reality of environmental degradation is plain to see, most African traditional communities, and even their respective states at large, still wallow in poverty such that they remain in need of developing themselves if they are to reach the level…
An African Communitarian View of Epistemic Responsibility
In this article, I venture into a fairly underexplored area of African epistemic normativity. I seek to consider how the question of responsibility might be approached differently if values salient in African communitarian thinking are critically explored. I argue that while one may find almost a uniform framework for the determination of epistemic responsibility in different philosophical traditions based on the rational scheme, in the dominant …
The Place of Indigenous Methods of Governance in Post-colonial Africa
Environmental challenges and the place of African relational environmental ethics of Unhu/Ubuntu
Questions on understanding the connections between human beings and the natural environment have generally been addressed extensively. However, more effort still needs to be made to augment such research by considering how to further understand human-environment connections from ethical perspectives. In this work, I consider how the human-environment relationship might be approached differently by appealing to some underexplored relational values…
Democracy, development and the ecological crisis in Africa
Conceptualising environmental justice through epistemic justice in Africa
African cultural and philosophical studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · African philosophy (3 works)