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Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

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  1. Participation, politics and place in the struggle for environmental justice

    …generalized perception in the case of the MRB and environmental justice research from high-income countries. However, these patterns are consistent with some research from other Latin American countries (Mexico and Brazil), suggesting that this result is related to the socio-spatial pattern of urbanization in Latin America where wealthier households and businesses are usually located in city centers with better infrastructure, while poorer commun…

  2. 2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK

    September 1-5, 2025

    Hosted by the University of Bradford

    “Culture, Peace and Capabilities”

    At the heart of the capability approach (CA) is the idea of human flourishing. However, human flourishing is challenging, and in some cases, not possible, in a world of conflict and insecurity – whether between nations, or between groups within a country or between individuals at the micro-level of a society.

    The foundational ideas of the CA (of both Sen and Nussbaum schools) envision a society where constitutional guarantees and deliberative public reasoning provide for the protection of minorities and disadvantaged individuals, and at a theoretical level these should be the starting points for building institutions to mitigate against conflict and to resolve conflicts where these appear.

    As we welcome the community of the ‘Human Development and the Capability Association’ to the University of Bradford where the UK’s first Peace Studies Department was founded in 1973, the idea of connecting the CA with peace is an exciting and significant theme to explore. Bradford is also celebrating being the UK ’City of Culture 2025’. The year-long celebration recognizes the contributions made by generations of waves of immigrants over the last two centuries.

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  3. NEW BOOK! The Capability Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals: Inter, Multi, and Trans Disciplinary Perspectives

    …se studies from across Asia, Africa, Latin America (global south), and the USA, UK, and Australia (global north) consider how the capability approach can contribute as a practical framework to achieving the SDGs’ ambitions for social, economic, political, and legal progress. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners from law, politics, international relations, criminology, inter…

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