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

    …ormation about the conference will be available on the conference webpage: www.iecon.ccee.edu.uy. Questions can be addressed to the conference organizers at: alcadeca2016@iecon.ccee.edu.uy Paper Submission a) Individual academic papers. An abstract of up to 500 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese must be submitted for consideration for presentation at the meeting. The cover page should include the title of the paper, institutional affiliation,…

  2. Webinar on the Participatory Research Capability Cube

    …to 5:00pm in Spain + Bloemfontein (GMT+1) 7:30 to 8:30pm in New Delhi (GMT +4.5) 10:00 to 11:00am in New York (GMT – 5) Participants must register to participate in this webinar. Details on how to participate will be sent to you a few days before the webinar. To register, receive access to a copy of the text and for any question about the webinar, please contact Veronica Crosbie at veronica.crosbie@dcu.ie by Thursday 29th October 2015 The Webinar:…

  3. ALCADECA Conference – Submission Deadline Extended to March 17

    …ormation about the conference will be available on the conference webpage: www.iecon.ccee.edu.uy. Questions can be addressed to the conference organizers at: alcadeca2016@iecon.ccee.edu.uy Paper Submission a) Individual academic papers. An abstract of up to 500 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese must be submitted for consideration for presentation at the meeting. The cover page should include the title of the paper, institutional affiliation,…

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

    …us Senior 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, Wissenschaftskoll…

  5. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …poverty (malnutrition, physical and mental illness, stigma, isolation, etc.). We encourage papers from scholars with backgrounds in the humanities or the social sciences, as well as from practitioners. Furthermore, we particularly welcome papers approaching the normative and political implications of absolute poverty in Europe and its alleviation. There also will be a special stream on the practice of poverty alleviation in Europe together with t…

  6. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …anie Walker, Monica McLean, Mikateko Mathebula & Patience Mukwambo https://www.africanminds.co.za/low-income-students/ This book explores learning outcomes for low-income rural and township youth at five South African universities. The book is framed as a contribution to southern and Africa-centred scholarship, adapting Amartya Sen’s capability approach and a framework of key concepts: capabilities, functionings, context, conversion factors, pover…

  7. Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS

    …r activist struggles and research endeavours (Schlosberg 2007; Ballet et al. 2013; Holland 2014; Martin 2017; Day 2017). Furthermore, the original focus of capabilities on human well-being has been recently theorised in its relation to EJ (Edwards et al. 2016). Criticism on the arguably individualistic stance of the original CA has triggered the development of another literature strand – Community Capabilities – either as the sort of collective ca…

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