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  1. Call for Book Chapters – “Youth, Gender and Capabilities”

    …to submit an abstract for an edited book focused on Youth, Gender and Capabilities. The aims of this edited book are to: – Offer a human development perspective in the analysis of youth and the role that gender plays in different contexts. – Operationalize the capability approach through different case studies to interrogate different areas that affect youth space of freedoms. – Focus on diversity, equality, participation and inclusive practices w…

  2. Conference Proposals Due March 1: Marginalized Peoples, Human Rights, and Development Ethics


    …democratic participation. The concept of marginalization recognizes the myriad ways in which individuals and groups might be economically, socially, or politically excluded, and the developmental, democratic, health, and ethical consequences of that exclusion. Presentations will address the challenges to marginalized populations and ethno-cultural minorities, as well as other economically or geographically isolated groups, in the region and in Mol…

  3. Special issue ‘Information Technology for Development’ on CA

    …Technology for Development’ has just published a special issue on the capability approach. It contains 6 articles, some of them written by members of our thematic group. The articles are: Development as freedom; how the Capability Approach can be used in ICT4D research and practice (editorial) – Annika Andersson, Åke Grönlund & Gudrun Wicander Building collective capabilities through ICT in a mountain region of Nepal: where social capital leads to…

  4. Book on “The Capability Approach and Sustainability”

    It is rather astonishing that the issue of sustainability first posed by the Brundtland commission in 1987 has gained so little attention from capability scholars despite the focus of the approach on human well-being. The book “The Capability Approach and Sustainability” has recently been published as the first book dedicated exclusively on this issue. Essentially based on the special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities pub…

  5. New Book: “The Creation of the Human Development Approach”

    …ject Researcher in the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a supervisor specializing in the human development approach and the human development index at the University of Cambridge, UK. Summary This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either theoretical/prescript…

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