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)
“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
“Recognising Individual Capabilities and Building Collective Action for Public Good”
Speakers: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey
Chair: Melanie Walker
“To improve wellbeing globally, we need more outcome data on children”
Speaker: Mamta Murthi
Chair: Achin Chakraborty
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
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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).
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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.
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