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  1. OPEN ACCESS: Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined

    …n within and outside the capability approach. It does so in a way which is readable and clear, and it manages to avoid on the one hand being too polemical, and on the other hand being too superficial. Ingrid Robeyns is uniquely well-placed to write such a book, being herself a well-established inter-disciplinary scholar whose work has contributed enormously to the development of the capability approach over the years. It has been a frustration for…

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

    …the practice of responding to social problems and challenges. One of the crucial challenges at the beginning of the 21st century is population ageing. Various new and innovative initiatives, programs, schemes, and projects to respond to negative consequences of this demographic process are emerging around the world. However, social theories related to ageing are still insufficiently combined with these new practices, social movements, organisatio…

  3. Special Issue of ‘Dimensions’: OPHI 10th Anniversary

    …Enjoy this special edition of ‘Dimensions’ which provides a 10-year retrospective on the impact of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Contributions by Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Anthony Shorrocks and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. Interviews with James Foster, Frances Stewart, and María Emma Santos. Click here to read online or download…

  4. What are HD & the CA?

    …man lives? The CA does not give a blueprint on how to act to transform the world so that all may live flourishing human lives, let alone to give a blueprint of what it means to flourish as a human being – although some interpretation of CA, such as Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, develop a more specific idea of human flourishing and the institutional arrangements to bring it about. But however one interprets it, CA leaves each one of us t…

  5. WEBINAR: “Epistemic Injustice and the Capability Approach”

    …More specifically, she studies how the subject’s capacity of offering the truth is influenced by credibility excess or deficit based on identity prejudices (2007). Furthermore, she considers the notion of epistemic contribution as a central human capability discussing the capacity of epistemic giving and reciprocity in the pool of shared epistemic materials (2015). In the webinar, we will critically discuss Fricker’s contribution and explore its r…

  6. Call for Abstracts: 2018 Oxford International Health Congress

    St Hugh’s College, Oxford (28th-30th June 2018) http://www.globalhealthcongress.org/submissions The Submission Process First Call Deadline 23.59 GMT – 20th December 2017 To submit an abstract, you will need the following information: 1. A 100-word abstract and title (theory/framework, methods and hypotheses, results, conclusions). 2. Contact details of all co-authors (Email, Name, Affiliation). 3. Other information relating to the proposed presen…

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