Speaker: Simon Deakin, Professor of Law (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Ruth Dukes, Professor of Labour Law (University of Glasgow)
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Promoting transformative change through new eco-social contracts
Promoting transformative change through new eco-social contracts, jointly organized by members of the UNRISD Global Research & Action Network for a new Eco-Social Contract (GRAN-ESC) and the Human Development Capability Association (HDCA).
Welcome:
Enrica Martinetti-Chiappero (HDCA), President
Opening introductions:
Katja Hujo; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Head of Bonn office & senior research coordinator
Moderator:
Chris Hopkins; Green Economy Coalition (GEC), Economic Policy
Lead Panelists:
Annie Namala (Executive Director of Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion, and National Convener of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, New Delhi, India)
Manisha Desai (Executive Director of the Center for Changing Systems of Power, and Endowed Chair of Global Citizenship at Stony Brook University, New York, USA)
Séverine Deneulin (Director of International Development at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Associate Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development, Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
Closing remarks:
Gabriele Köhler (UNRISD)
Raphael Ng (HDCA)
Amplifying Youth Activism: Exploring Mechanisms, Barriers, and Strategies in the Global South
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)
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 VideosSen’s Broad Consequentialism, Legitimate Freedoms and Biodiversity Loss
Speaker: Andrew Crabtree
Amartya Sen has been unjustly criticized for having an apparently lassiez faire approach to freedoms. For some, he appears to place no limits on the freedoms people may have. Such a criticism fails to take Sen’s work on consequentialism – his so-called broad consequentialism – into consideration. Nor too does it discuss his work on responsibility. Thus, the first part of this paper outlines Sen’s “broad consequentialism”, which takes agency, processes and social relationships of people into consideration, and contrasts it and its benefits, with traditional consequentialism. This section also criticizes Sen’s approach for being unclear in terms of prioritization, especially in relation to rights which is left to a vague discussion of public reasoning (Sen, 2008). Section 2 begins by outlining a legitimate freedom or critical contractualist approach to the limits of freedoms is defended which, drawing on Scanlon (1998) and Forst (2011), emphasises the importance of justification to others. It defends the approach against Sen’s criticisms of Scanlon which, I shall maintain involves a misunderstanding of Scanlon’s work as providing a unique set of principles for all cases (Sen, 2008).
HDCA Webinar 2024 European NetworkA 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 VideosEthique du développement en Afrique subsaharienne francophone
Jérôme Ballet, enseignant-chercheur à l’Université de Bordeaux, nous présentera sa contribution au Handbook of Development ethics (édité par J. Drydyk et L. Keleher).
HDCA Webinar 2024 Francophone Africa Network AfricaLabour Law, Employees’ Capability for Voice, and Wellbeing
Cherise Regier speaks on the topic ‘Employees’ Capability for Voice as a Determinant of Wellbeing: An Empirical Evaluation of the Right-to-Disconnect Legislation in Europe.’ Responder: Jean-Michel Bonvin, Professor of Sociology and Socioeconomics at the University of Geneva
HDCA Webinar 2023 Work and EmploymentRacism 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.
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