The book Human Development and Capabilities: Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century, co-edited by Alejandra Boni and Melanie Walker and published by Routledge in 2013, has just been awarded the prestigious Manuel Castillo award in Spain for stimulating ‘academic, scientific and journalist research in cooperation, peace and human development fields’. A Spanish translation of parts of the book is being considered to facilitate wide…
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Workshop: Advances in stochastic dominance for welfare analysis
http://www.ferdi.fr/en/event/advances-stochastic-dominance-welfare-analysis The seminal contributions of Kolm and Atkinson showed four decades ago how the use of stochastic dominance (SD) could help understand and compare distributions of welfare. Initially used in economics for the analysis of choice in risky environments, SD has proved to be particularly useful in those contexts in which it is difficult to agree on the measurement either of ind…
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WEBINAR: Inclusive Data and Statistics: Human Development and Disability in Low- and Middle-income Countries
HDCA’s Health and Disability Thematic Group invites you to the next webinar in our 2020/21 series Speaker: Professor Sophie Mitra Fordham University Wednesday April 14th, 2021 16:00 to 17:00 in London 22:30 to 23:30 in Delhi 11:00 to 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time The event will take place through Zoom. Please register through Eventbrite in order to receive a link to the meeting. The Webinar: This study first examines to what extent household survey…
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CfP: Workshop “Children on the Move: Philosophy and Child Migration”
…va Convention and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees? Confirmed Speakers • Mladjo Ivanovic, Grand Valley State University • Jonathan Josefsson, Linköping University • Anna Malavisi, Western Connecticut State University • Christine Straehle, University of Ottawa • John Wall, Rutgers University Camden Call for Papers If you are interested in participating please submit an extended abstract of 750 words to gottfried.schweiger@sbg.ac.at….
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CONFERENCE – Digitalisation in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development, and Justice
…iculture programmes, as well as mobile banking applications and ICT infrastructure such as drones or white space technology. With growing activity in the fields of digitalisation and ICT for development (ICT4D) in Africa, critical questions have to be raised: What are the motivations behind ICT export and digitalisation programmes? How are technologies used, who is excluded from ICT use and why? Bearing in mind that technologies are not neutral bu…
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Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS
…he significance of the CA for EJ pursuits at a conceptual level. Submission: If you are interested in contributing a paper to this session, please send your abstract (300 words) to Jorge Llopis (jorge.llopis@cde.unibe.ch) and Carla Gomes (carla.gomes@ics.ulisboa.pt) by 12 February 2019….
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Award Winning Book – “Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights”
…”Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights” (OUP 2015, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph) has received the Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship Award of the American Political Science Association. The book is written from the capability perspective on human rights….
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NEW European Commission Report: Multidimensional Perspectives on Inequality: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges
Download the report here Abstract: A recently published European Commission Joint Research Centre report summarises some of the most relevant theoretical and empirical challenges associated with the measurement and analysis of multidimensional inequalities. Each section delves into a specific topic, presents a state-of-the-art review of the key findings in that particular area, and proposes a number of policy recommendations and avenues for furth…
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HDCA Undergraduate Workshop II: Exploring “worthwhile development”
…HDCA strives to offer high quality free events to members and non-members worldwide and for many this is the only opportunity to engage with others on the capability approach. So, we ask you kindly: • Please only sign up if you are a undergraduate student working with the capability approach, human development or development ethics • Please do check that you are available before signing up for the workshop. • Please do cancel your place if you fi…
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Call for Papers – 6th Meeting of ALCADECA (Latin American and the Caribbean Association for the Study of Human Capabilities)
…Universidad del Perú, Perú) Gustavo Pereira (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) Andrés Rius (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) Graciela Tonon (Universidad de Lomas de Zamora y Universidad de Palermo, Argentina) Local organizing committee Ana Fascioli (Universidad de la República) Martín Leites (Universidad de la República) Agustín Reyes (Universidad de la República) Gonzalo Salas (Universidad de la República) Andrea Vigorito (Universidad de…