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  1. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone

    …public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989) and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013). http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198833468.pdfhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833468?cc=us&lang=en&# https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833…

  2. 2024 HDCA Conference – Kolkata, India

    September 24-26, 2024

    Hosted by Pratichi (India Trust), Institute for Development Studies Kolkata, and Health Information Systems Program (HISP)

     

    “Crises, Capabilities and Commitment”

    The 2024 HDCA conference has special significance as 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of HDCA. The conference is being held in Kolkata, West Bengal, India – home of the first HDCA president, Professor Amartya Sen. The conference theme of Crises, Capabilities and Commitment has been chosen because the inter-linkages between these three ideas require in depth discussion.

    Many multi-faceted crises assail us. Some are global in scope, linked with the assault on our environment, violent conflicts, pandemics and humanitarian challenges. Some crises emerge from episodic events. Others emerge less dramatically linked with a backlash to transformations in social relations, or technologies. Crises, both episodic and cumulative, reveal deep inequalities in capabilities. Crises may be associated with both ‘loud’ and ‘silent’ capability deprivations, in areas such as education, health, disability, political participation and wellbeing. The immediate and visible fallout from crises may precipitate further inequalities in capabilities linked to loss of income and employment, inequity, food insecurity malnutrition, and polarization between groups. The conference will be a setting to discuss the forms of commitment needed to analyze and address many interlinked crises and their stress on capabilities.

     

  3. WEBINAR: From Human Development to Sustainable Human Development

    …and Human Security Analysis (together with Des Gasper). https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030389048 Other publications include: Sustainability and Climate Change in Jay Drydyk and Lori Keleher (eds) Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics (2018). His publications on disasters include Crabtree, A. (2018). Capabilities, Ethics and Disasters. In Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories (pp. 175-187). In O’Mathúna, D. P., Dranseika, V., & Go…

  4. Call for support: Big Jump Challenge – European water solidarity youth campaign

    …a big splash for water conservation in Europe. If you would like to get involved or hear more about this campaign during the HDCA 2014 conference, please contact Rafael Ziegler (rziegler AT uni-greifswald.de). Further information: The Big Jump Challenge Homepage: bigjumpchallenge.net The Big Jump, water solidarity and social innovation: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/socialinnovationeurope/node/4686. Big Jump Challenge Flyer: http://www.rivernet.or…

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

    …he 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, organisational models, and institutions. Many scholars are still using notions and tools from classical theo…

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