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  1. Call for Papers: Perspectives and Theories of Social Innovation for Ageing Population

    …s – Advanced impact metrics More: – Read about the article collection https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8000 – Publishing fees including institutional memberships and fee-waiver program https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees – Author Guidelines https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines – Contact the Frontiers editorial office sociology@frontiersin.org  …

  2. WEBINAR SERIES: Sustainability and the Capability Approach

    …een 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 r…

  3. 2022 HDCA Conference – Antwerp, Belgium

    The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.

    “Capabilities and Transformative Institutions”

    How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well  in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.

    Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.

  4. 2019 HDCA Conference – London, UK

    *THIS CONFERENCE HAS ENDED*

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE KEYNOTE LECTURES

     

    “Connecting Capabilities”

    9-11 September, 2019

    London, UK

    Hosted by University College London

     

    in partnership with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Birkbeck, the University of East London (UEL) and the London International Development Centre (LIDC)

    The 2019 HDCA Program Committee cordially invites scholars, government policy makers, practitioners and other interested parties from all over the world to participate in the 2019 HDCA conference.  Original empirical research, theoretical issues, case-studies or reports of experiences, or findings from major research projects, and book panels relevant to conference theme or more broadly related to human development/capabilities approach will be presented.

     

  5. Call for papers – Special Issue of Sustainability

    …ome. Note that the deadline is 20 April 2021. All papers can be directly submitted through the journal site. The special issue information is at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Human_Development Thank you for your attention and best regards. Jaya…

  6. HDCA-SPONSORED WEBINAR: Capabilities and Covid-19

    …public health and development studies. She is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, a Fordham-Columbia research fellow and an affiliate of the Columbia China Center for Social Policy. Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/capabilities-covid-19-tickets-104971452440…

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