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  1. Podcast

    …’s book Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Health+Justice%3A+An+Argument+from+the+Capabilities+Approach-p-9780745650340 EPISODE 3: Introducing the Early Career Researchers and Practitioners Network https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q9S9fImlNKpI5sCDXZaxR In this episode we speak to organisers of the Early Careers Researchers and Practitioners Network.  Organisers Raphael Ng, Abigail Lennox, Doroth…

  2. HD&CA Debate Series – Indigenous Peoples and the Capability Approach

    …nd indigenous perspectives to well-being and development. Using a range of examples and case studies from Maori, First Nations, Native American, Aboriginal, African, and Asian indigenous communities, the book provides a window into the lived experiences of some of the most marginalised and vulnerable groups in the world. The first book to bring indigenous perspectives into conversation with the capability approach, Indigenous Peoples and the Capab…

  3. Newly published! HD&C Debate Series – Technology and Human Development

    …in order to deal with the challenges that technology raises. More information: http://hd-ca.org/hdc-debate-series-technology Author: Ilse Oosterlaken Available for order at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138780583/ HDCA members receive a 25% discount! Email admin@hd-ca.org to request the promotional code….

  4. Just published! “Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics”

    …national audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality – a region with a history of movements for social justice – the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and compelling ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. Find out more……

  5. HD&C Debate Series – Technology and Human Development

    …ut’ to see the broader socio-technical embedding of a technology. The book examines whether technology is merely a neutral instrument that expands what people can do and be in life, or whether technology transfers may also impose certain views of what it means to lead a good life. The final chapter examines the capability approach in relation to contemporary debates about ‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D), as the technology domain where the approach h…

  6. “Well-Being, Justice and Development Ethics”

    …the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and compelling ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. This book outlines in a clear and concrete way what the capability approach is and its significance for the social sciences and policy. It describes the distinctiveness of the approach as an ethical framework for action and aims t…

  7. Limitations and Frontiers: Concepts, Measures, and Applications of the Capability Approach

    …eriod of intense reflection, experimentation, hope, competition, and learning. In parallel, the data environment and availability of qualitative, quantitative, and participatory data has bounded forward, as has policy interest in topics central to the capability approach. This has truly been a fertile period. This talk reviews a few advances, then focuses on and calls for creative investment in some high priority gaps. Download a copy of the slide…

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