Special Invited Lecture: The Capability for Justice
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Decolonisation in Social Work and Development: Lessons from Africa
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 VideosEducation, Capabilities and Sustainable Development
Presenter: 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 VideosA conceptual review of the narrative on sustainability from the perspective of the capability approach
Speaker: 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 VideosRacism and Ill-Being
In 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 VideosPlenary 4: Ul Haq Lecture: Measurement Is Not Everything, But It Does Make A Difference
Keynote speaker: S. Subramanian
Independent researcher
Formerly Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
Chair: Petya Kabakchieva
Sofia University
Plenary 8: Panel Discussion: Old and New Vulnerabilities at Work: Workplace Inclusion and Innovation on Whose Terms?
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
Plenary 7: Digital Technologies for Inclusive Development?
Keynote speaker: Vassil Kirov
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at BAS, Bulgaria
Chair: Alejandra Boni
Ingenio (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València), Spain
Plenary 6: Sen Lecture: Global Income Inequality: Recent Changes and their Political Implications
Keynote speaker: Branko MILANOVIĆ
City University of New York, United States
Chair: Shailaja FENNELL
Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Respondent: Enrica CHIAPPERO-MARTINETTI
Professor of economic policy, University of Pavia, Italy
Engaging with decolonisation to value Indigenous people’s self-determination as a key human capability: Some reflections
Presenter: Dr. Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Lecturer in Social Work
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Brief Bio: Vinathe Sharma-Brymer is a lecturer in Social Work at University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary academic researcher applying cross-continental approaches and perspectives in her qualitative research on human development. Her current academic research is on the benefits of nature-relatedness for better human health and wellbeing. Vinathe also focuses on working with individual (human) agency while engaging with intersecting issues in the experiences of equality and equity to enjoy the quality of life. This focus broadens her personal and professional engagement to examine decolonisation and self-determination using a migrant’s lens to explore the impact of colonisation on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
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