Albert Kasanda, PhD.

Albert Kasanda is Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is also a Senior Researcher in the ERC-funded project based at the University of Bayreuth, named "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" (2020-2025). He is member of the board of editors of Ueberweg series on the History of African Philosophy at Hildesheim University (Germany). Kasanda is also member of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence of the University of Bayreuth. Kasanda’s expertise expans areas of intercultural and comparative philosophy, Decolonization’s theories, African political philosophy, and Latin American philosophy. His current research focuses on African political philosophy, African civil society, intercultural philosophy, decolonization, and genre.

ORCiD: 0000-0001-9119-4135
Researcher ID: 29004132
Academia.edu: https://cas-cz.academia.edu

Selected publications:
Kasanda, Albert .2023. The Marginalization of African Epistemologies. In Hrubec, Marek, and Višnoský, Emil (eds), Towards a New Research Era. A Global Comparison of Research Distortions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 187-198. ISBN: 978-90-04-54603-5.
Kasanda, Albert, and Hrubec, Marek (eds). 2022. Africa in a Multilateral World: Afropolitan Dilemmas. London/New York: Routledge. ISBN:97-1-032-03389-1.
Kasanda, Albert; Hrubec, Marek; Svoboda, Jan. 2022. Africká filosofie společnosti: Vývojová perspektiva, Filosofia, Praha. ISBN 978-80-7007-743-6.
Kasanda, Albert. 2021. Negotiating African Identity in Times of Globalization: A Comparative Approach to Afropolitanism and Negritude. In Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective Power Relations in a Global World. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 33-57. ISBN 9781032023229
Kasanda, Albert. 2020. Africký boj proti pandemii. In: Hrubec, Marek a kol. Pandemie v makroregionech světa. Philosophica Critica, roč. 6, 2020, č. 1, s. 161 – 168.

Publications:
- monographies
- articles
- chapters
- popularisation

Subventions and grant projects
2025: SAV21. Identities in a world of war and crisis. My research focus will be Identity and Violence in Africa.
2020 up to now: Senior research in ERC funded project, Philosophy and Genre: Creating a textual basis for African philosophy, based at Bayreuth University.
2018-2020: SAV21, Global conflicts, local resolutions. Research areas: African youth and struggle for peace; African political philosophy, identity thinking (Afropolitanism, Negritude, Pan-Africanism).

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