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The Ethics of Care and the Political Economy of Motherhood: A Feminist Philosophical Analysis of Maternal Labour in Contemporary Nigeria Mary Julius Egbai
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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The ethics of care, developed by feminist philosophers such as Carol Gilligan and Joan Tronto, has made a powerful case for recognising care as a fundamental moral practice that has been systematically devalued in patriarchal and capitalist societies. However, the ethics of care literature has focused primarily on care relations in Western contexts, with less attention to the specific forms that care takes in African societies. This paper examines the ethics of maternal care in contemporary Nigeria, arguing that the political economy of motherhood in Nigeria reveals both the universal dimensions of care ethics and its specific cultural inflections. Drawing on ethnographic studies of Nigerian mothers and on Nigerian feminist scholarship, the paper analyses the moral dilemmas that mothers face in contexts of economic precarity, inadequate state support, and patriarchal family structures. It argues that the Nigerian case challenges the implicit universalism of Western care ethics and enriches the tradition by demonstrating how care is practised and valued in contexts where the boundaries between family, market, and state are configured differently. The paper proposes a contextualised ethics of care that is attentive to the specific political, economic, and cultural conditions under which care is given and received.
Sacred Groves in the Age of Concrete: The Political Ecology of Forest Shrine Destruction and Biodiversity Loss in Cross River State, Nigeria Enyioma E. Nwosu; Usang Ubana Eyong; Affiong Kingsley Ndem; Gregory Ajima
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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Cross River State contains Nigeria's largest remaining tract of tropical rainforest, a biodiversity hotspot of global significance that is also home to hundreds of sacred groves protected by indigenous religious taboos. These groves, known among the Ejagham as Mfam forests and among the Boki as Nfam groves, have historically functioned as de facto nature reserves, preserving old-growth forest, protecting watersheds, and providing habitat for endangered species including the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) and the drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus). However, the rapid expansion of Pentecostal Christianity, commercial agriculture, and logging since the 1990s has placed these groves under unprecedented pressure. Pentecostal pastors have led campaigns to destroy sacred groves as sites of demonic worship, while economic pressures have driven communities to clear groves for plantation agriculture. This paper examines the political ecology of sacred grove destruction in Cross River State, arguing that the loss of these sites represents not only a cultural and religious crisis but an ecological one with implications for biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate resilience. Drawing on political ecology, the anthropology of religion, and conservation biology, the paper analyses the intersecting religious, economic, and political forces driving grove destruction, the ecological consequences of this destruction, and the strategies that communities and conservation organisations are developing to protect remaining groves. The paper concludes that the future of Cross River State's forests depends on recognising the conservation value of indigenous sacred sites and supporting the communities that have protected them for centuries.
The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity: A Decolonial Ecotheological Reading of Land, Dispossession and Climate Justice Eyo Ubong Ekpenyong
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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This paper brings decolonial theory and ecological hermeneutics into conversation through a close reading of biblical texts about land. It examines how passages such as Leviticus 25, Isaiah 5, and Acts 4 have been deployed to legitimise colonial and neocolonial dispossession, while also containing resources for resistance. The paper argues that the biblical tradition is neither simply complicit in nor innocent of what decolonial scholars call the colonial matrix of power over land and creation. It develops a decolonial ecotheology that retrieves the Jubilee tradition as a counter-narrative to extractive capitalism and climate injustice, while critically acknowledging the ways biblical texts have been used to justify land grabbing and ecological destruction. The analysis is grounded in African contexts where climate displacement and resource extraction are pressing concerns. It concludes by proposing a hermeneutical framework that centres the voices of dispossessed communities, integrates indigenous ecological knowledge, and reimagines the relationship between humanity and the land in ways that challenge both colonial legacies and contemporary extractivism.

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