El miércoles, 9 de abril, a las 11.30, en la Sala de Juntas de Filosofía, tuvo lugar otra sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab. Nuestro invitado fue Julius Kapembwa, de la Universidad de Zambia y UPF-CAE Senior Fellow en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Más abajo tenéis el título y un resumen de la charla, así como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Julius.
Title: «The Global North Responsibility towards Rights of Wild Animals in the Global South».
Abstract: The global South is host to hundreds of protected areas for wild animals and flora. These areas offer some level of protection to millions of individual other-than- human animals, albeit premised on an anthropocentric and speciesist axiology. To this extent, the incentives for of governments in the Global South necessarily involves treatment of wild animals in ways that run against interests of the other-than-human animals. These include practices such as commercial and subsistence hunting. Such uses are intricately intertwined with the livelihoods of local human communities as well as economic goals of Global South governments. Moreover, economically constrained Global South governments must allocate their meagre resources from critical social services towards protection of wild animals. This paper argues that the Global North has a moral responsibility to provide, as a matter of justice, various forms of support towards protection of wild animals that are resident in the Global South. The paper argues that that the Global North has this responsibility is justified on grounds of
(1) cosmopolitan tenets as applies to all bearers of moral rights,
(2) myriad ways in which citizens and governments of the Global North contribute to the vulnerability of wild animals in the Global South, and
(3) climate justice rights.
Bio: Julius Kapembwa holds a UPF-CAE Senior Fellow at Universidad Pompeu Fabra. He is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Zambia. He studied as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Reading, England, where he obtained his PhD in Philosophy in 2017. His PhD thesis was titled “Wildlife Rights: Human Obligations”. He researches and publishes within animal ethics and interdisciplinary social science as well. He is currently researching on subsistence hunting and on human-nonhuman animal conflict while working on a monograph based on his PhD work. Julius is also a founding member of Animals in the Room, an international network of academics, practitioners, and activists fostering new ways for enhancing representation of the interests of animals in democratic institutions. He is a member of the Lusaka Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) in which he participates as a member of the Anti Cruelty Committee as well as in fundraising initiatives for food and medical requirements at the LAWS animal shelter. He is currently part of the technical team spearheading a one-year project: “Voices of Change: Empowering Youths and Women in Local Governance and Democracy”, funded by the United States Embassy in Zambia.
