Do you teach about human development and capabilities? In 2020-21, we are organising a series of online workshops to bring […]
Latin American Network
The Human Development and Capability Association Latin American Network (HDCA-LA) is a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners with two main broad objectives. First, to produce high-quality and policy-relevant academic knowledge on different topics on development studies in Latin America using the normative language of the Human Development and Capability Approach. Second, to trigger transformative actions that increase the actual freedom that people in Latin America have to lead the life they value and to build just societies.
The HDCA-LA has strong and permanent links with the Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe para el Estudio de las Capacidades Humanas (ALCADECA). Since its creation in 2006, ALCADECA has actively promoted debate and collaborative work about Human Development in Latin America both in Spanish and Portuguese. It has organized a number of bi-annual conferences that had taken place in different cities in the region such as México City (2006, Universidad Iberoamericana), Montevideo (2008, 2016, Universidad de la República), Porto Alegre (2010, Pontificia Universidad de Rio Grande do Sul), Buenos Aires (2012, Universidad Lomas de Zamora), Lima (2014, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Puebla (2019, Universidad de las Américas). We are currently working together on the next ALCADECA conference which is expected to take place in 2021.
The HDCA-LA network’s main activities are to facilitate communication between the researchers in the region, to share relevant information, to organize academic events, and to provide different kinds of opportunities to build an inclusive and diverse space for discussion on topics related to human development in Latin America. While we strongly encourage all colleagues interested in this group to affiliate to the HDCA, it is possible to be added to the HDCA-LA mailing list without having an active HDCA membership. Nevertheless, access to HDCA’s important resources such as the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities is available only for people with an active HDCA membership.
In the near future, the HDCA-LA will organize a number of activities ranging from the elaboration of a list containing selected bibliography produced by Latin American scholars, the annual promotion of publications from its members to the organization of webinars and online work in progress workshops.
Graduate and Undergraduate Workshop Series
Graduate Workshop Series Following requests from graduate HDCA members we are planning to launch a series of writing workshops to […]
Apr 13 2020 COVID-19 Reflections: A Global Capability Crisis
by Paul Anand Fellow, Human Development & Capability Association Oxford, UK The global crisis caused by COVID 19 has been […]
Apr 9 2020 The right to science | UN general comment | Ideas for collaboration
On the 7th of April the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published the final comment on […]
Aug 19 2019 NEW PUBLICATION: Bienestar Multidimensional en el Perú
URI http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/166562 Descripción Primer boletín producto del estudio titulado El Bienestar Multidimensional en el Perú. El estudio tuvo como objetivo […]
Jun 11 2019 NEW BOOK: The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation
The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation Concepts, Methods and Applications Edited by David Alexander Clark, Mario Biggeri, and Alexandre Apsan […]
Feb 21 2019 Costos monetarios de la alimentación actual del mexicano promedio, el caso de Xalapa, Veracruz. Construcción de la Sustracción Nominal Típica.
K. M. Gómez Summary This article seeks to show the current food and nutrition problems of the Mexican population and […]
Jun 14 2018 Webinar “Children’s feeling of Security: a view from the Capability Approach” July, 6th, 2018
The Thematic Group “Children and The Youth” is happy to announce the first webinar of the TG “Children&Youth” Webinar Series! […]
Feb 20 2014 Education panel proposals for HDCA Athens conference
Dear education network members, The following two panels are currently being proposed for the HDCA conference in Athens: a) Post […]