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  1. 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.

  2. HDCA Fellows Highlight Implications of Dignity for International Development

    …arch initiative investigating the role of human dignity in the practice of international development. Séverine Deneulin, HDCA secretary and senior lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath Centre for Development Studies, related dignity, agency, and solidarity in her remarks during the opening plenary. She suggested solidarity as a way of conceptualizing how development can enhance agency, outlining a relational method of acc…

  3. May 12 CfP Deadline: “Environmental Citizenship and Individual Responsibility for Global Environmental Problems (EC.IRGEP)”

    …lian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 49(1975), 171–190. Harris, P. (2010). World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics. Hiller, A. (2011). Climate change and individual responsibility. The Monist, 94(3), 349–368. Hourdequin, M. (2010). Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations. Environmental Values, 19(4), 443–464. Jamieson, D. (2010). When utilitarians sho…

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