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  1. Special issue ‘Information Technology for Development’ on CA

    …Technology for Development’ has just published a special issue on the capability approach. It contains 6 articles, some of them written by members of our thematic group. The articles are: Development as freedom; how the Capability Approach can be used in ICT4D research and practice (editorial) – Annika Andersson, Åke Grönlund & Gudrun Wicander Building collective capabilities through ICT in a mountain region of Nepal: where social capital leads to…

  2. ZIF Summer School 2017 – Universität Bielefeld

    …roach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 1-8 August 2017 http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/erziehungswissenschaft/zif/ We would like to cordially invite PhD and Post-Doc scholars to a Summer School at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld exploring the Fuzzy Set Approach as an alternative to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Experts in the field are recruited in order to provide the best knowledge and skills t…

  3. New Book: “The Creation of the Human Development Approach”

    …ject Researcher in the University of Tokyo, Japan, and a supervisor specializing in the human development approach and the human development index at the University of Cambridge, UK. Summary This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either theoretical/prescript…

  4. 2020 Disability Studies Conference – Auckland, NZ

    Disability Studies, Disability Justice: Challenging Ableism The Conference will be hosted at the University of Auckland, 11-13 July 2020 Abstract submission deadline: 14 March 2020 The main theme of the conference is Disability Studies, Disability Justice: Challenging Ableism. Ableist privilege and the abled/disabled binary it perpetuates is a key priority for many disability studies scholars, disability activists, allies and accomplices. This co…

  5. TERI University – BLISS School 2016 on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

    18-22, April 2016 Registration begins: 27, January 2016 Last date for registration: 11, April 2016 http://www.teriuniversity.ac.in/bliss-school/ BLISS (Building Learning in Sustainability Science) is a series of five-day events organized by the TERI University to train and prepare stakeholders for the forthcoming sustainable development challenges by initiating dialogue and disseminating knowledge and skills on critical issues such as environment…

  6. CfP: Workshop “Children on the Move: Philosophy and Child Migration”

    …losophy (to name a few of the latest: Miller 2016; Parekh 2017; Fine and Ypi 2016; Sager 2016; Mendoza 2017; Duarte et al. 2018). Surprisingly children are largely absent in the philosophical debate – a few exceptions exist (for example Lister 2018) – and also the brand new “Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children” (Gheaus, Calder, and De Wispelaere 2018) includes no chapter on migration. Although it could be argued that som…

  7. New Book: “El Desarrollo como derecho humano. Normas nacionales y documentos internacionales. Jurisprudencia de tribunales superiores y regionales”

    …eso, desarrollo y desarrollo humano. El desarrollo como derecho humano en distintos documentos internacionales. El derecho al desarrollo en las regulaciones regionales. El progreso y el desarrollo humano en la doctrina social de la Iglesia. El progreso en el pensamiento argentino previo a la Constitución nacional de 1853. El progreso en la Constitución de 1853 y en las reformas de 1860, 1949 y 1957. La reforma constitucional de 1994 y el desarroll…

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