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  1. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics special issue

    Climate Justice and the Global Development Crisis Guest Co-editors: Anna Malavisi (Western Connecticut State University, USA), Tom Hilde (University of Maryland, USA), Krushil Watene (Massey University, NZ) Proposal submission deadline: September 1, 2022 The wellbeing of all life on our planet is under major threat and poses serious challenges for political systems and the geopolitical context at a global level. Climate change disrupts the social…

  2. Webinar: Agency, Autonomy and Social Innovation

    …st register in advance: To register please send a brief email to getidos@uni-greifswald.de. Once you have registered, you will receive further instructions on how to participate in the webinar. Suggested readings (Texts will be made available to participants prior to the webinar Nadia von Jacobi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Rafael Ziegler, Martjin van der Linden and Cees van Beers, “Social Innovation and Agency: Empirical Results from three Europ…

  3. Call for Papers – 6th Meeting of ALCADECA (Latin American and the Caribbean Association for the Study of Human Capabilities)

    …different disciplines and fields interested in human development, the capabilities approach and other approaches to normative and development issues, with particular focus in Latin America. Previous conferences have taken place in Mexico (2006), Montevideo (2008), Porto Alegre (2010), Buenos Aires (2012) and Lima (2014). The rapid economic growth recently experienced in most Latin American countries has generated a significant increase in househol…

  4. Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

    …We have named it the ‘participatory research capability cube’ due to its tri-dimensional perspective: 1) the expansion of the capabilities and agency of co-researchers; 2) the characteristics of the knowledge produced; and, 3) the democratic processes that PAR could enable during and beyond the research process. We then apply this framework to understand a PAR process in Spain in 2014. We have selected this example because it combines research and

  5. ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

    …different disciplines and fields interested in human development, the capabilities approach and other approaches to normative and development issues, with particular focus in Latin America. Previous conferences have taken place in Mexico (2006), Montevideo (2008), Porto Alegre (2010), Buenos Aires (2012) and Lima (2014). The rapid economic growth recently experienced in most Latin American countries has generated a significant increase in househol…

  6. Call for Papers: Health and Poverty – 2020 Salzburg Conference

    …conference folder, a guided city tour on Friday, coffe breaks, two lunch snacks and the conference dinner on Thursday. Students as well as particpiants from countries classified as low-income or lower-middle income economies by the World Bank pay a subsidized fee of 75€. Conference website: https://www.poverty-conference.org/…

  7. WEBINAR: Capability as informational basis for work and employment politics – a European re-search experience

    …or Researcher, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Goettingen. http://www.sofi-goettingen.de/nc/de/personen/detail/name/peter-bartelheimer/ Jean-Michel Bonvin: Professor at the Institut de Démographie et Socioéconomie, Univer-sité de Genève. https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/ideso/membres/bonvin/ Bénédicte Zimmermann: Professor and Research Director, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris ; Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berl…

  8. Call for Papers: 2018 Workshop in Philosophy and Poverty

    …s are, among others, the intergenerational transmission of poverty, inequalities between and within families, responsibilities towards poor families, parents and children, the relation between the family and the state, parental rights and duties under conditions of poverty, the ethical underpinnings of policy responses to family and child poverty, gender roles, patriarchy, intimate violence and poverty, or procreation in an radical unequal world a…

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