“Recognising Individual Capabilities and Building Collective Action for Public Good”
Speakers: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
Chair: Melanie Walker
Plenary 3: Special Invited Lecture

“Recognising Individual Capabilities and Building Collective Action for Public Good”
Speakers: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
Chair: Melanie Walker
“HDCA at 20: Building a Community through Conferences”
Chair: Elaine Unterhalter
Speakers: Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, Des Gasper, Flavio Comim, Ingrid Robeyns, Mario Biggeri, Sandra Boni
Speakers:
Stacy Jeanne Kosko (University of Maryland)
Pedro Hernando Maldonado Castañeda (Universitat de Barcelona)
Roni Kay O’Dell (Seton Hill)
Rithvik Yarlagadda (University of Maryland)
Presenter: Rugare Mugumbate
Lecturer Social Work | Academic Program Director, Master of Social Work (Qualifying)School of Health & Society, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong https://scholars.uow.edu.au/rugare-mugumbate
HDCA Webinar 2024 Africa Asia HDCA VideosPresenter: Caroline Hart
Chair: Andrew Crabtree
Educational institutions and their processes have the potential to make a significant contribution towards the development of individual capabilities and sustainable development more broadly. Albeit the latter will be diversely conceived, this potential exists, though cannot be assumed due to positive and negative impacts of educational processes, trade-offs and sacrifices along the way (Hart, 2018).
HDCA Webinar 2024 Education Sustainable Human Development European Network HDCA VideosSpeaker: Philippa Shepherd, a doctoral student at Université Grenoble Alpes, France, is doing research on the vulnerability and resilience of work capability in the French Alps amidst the challenges of climate change.
Many scholars have explored, critiqued, and developed upon the integration of the notion of sustainability within capability theory. Being human-centred, the capability approach emphasises human flourishing, dignity, equity, and justice issues with regard to sustainability, bringing to the fore the human in sustainable human development. However, scholars have highlighted theoretical discord between the two development paradigms, drawing attention to the underlying individualism of the capability approach and the understated role of the environment and nature in generating and safeguarding people’s capabilities. The sustainability-capability narrative has thus resulted in expansions of capability theory making explicit the environmental dimension and the notion of collective capability. In this presentation, Philippa explores some seminal papers illustrating the conceptual compatibility (or not) between sustainable development and the capability approach.
HDCA Webinar 2024 European Network HDCA VideosIn this webinar, Professor Crain Soudien, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and a long-standing researcher in the field of racism and education takes us through some of the conceptual issues in thinking about racism. Following his presentation, are reflections from Mikateko Mathebula, Faith Mkwananzi, Oliver Mutanga, Daizy Nalwamba, and Melanie Walker. Their insights will contribute to our understanding of the complex ways in which systemic racism influences our work.
HDCA Webinar 2023 HDCA VideosKeynote speaker: S. Subramanian
Independent researcher
Formerly Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
Chair: Petya Kabakchieva
Sofia University
Chair panelist: Ursula Holtgrewe
Head of the Work and Equal Opportunities Unit, Centre for Social Innovation GmbH (ZSI), Vienna, Austria
Panelists:
Steven Dhondt, Researcher at TNO and visiting professor at KU Leuven Belgium
Karina Angelieva, Head of the Political Cabinet, Ministry of Energy, Bulgaria
Zaakhir Asmal, Research Officer at the Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa