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  1. HDCA Webinar: Rethinking Participatory Research in the Pandemic Era

    …The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives and livelihoods across the world and disrupted the ways in which we experience our capabilities everyday. There is a new normal emerging in all spheres of life as we endeavour on one hand to save ourselves from COVID-19, and, on the other hand, engage ourselves in activities that are both necessary and meaningful for our existence and flourishing as human beings. In these times of the pandemic, for u…

  2. In Memoriam – Rachel Nussbaum Wichert

    …ffairs Attorney in the Wildlife Law Program at Friends of Animals, an international non-profit animal advocacy organization. Rachel innovatively engaged the Capabilities Approach to explore the complexity of animal lives. In three papers that she co-authored with Martha Nussbaum, she advanced the argument for considering cetaceans (whales and dolphins) as “non-human persons”, with the right to legal status under certain circumstances, and also cri…

  3. IDEA Conference: Marginalized Peoples, Human Rights, and Development Ethics


    …nalized groups. The conference will explore the ethical dimensions of international, national, and community development by and for marginalized populations, with an emphasis on human rights and democratic participation. The concept of marginalization recognizes the myriad ways in which individuals and groups might be economically, socially, or politically excluded, and the developmental, democratic, health, and ethical consequences of that exclus…

  4. Just Published: Human Development in Times of Crisis Renegotiating Social Justice

    …for Greece and Albania. He is Project Manager for VERSO – Volunteers for European Employment project. Holger Ziegler is Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science and a Member of the Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability Research. He has run several international ‘Social Work & Society’ Academy – TiSSA conferences. Antoanneta Potsi is Research Fellow at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She sits on the Executive Com…

  5. HDCA Annual Conference Pre-conference Health and Disability Workshop

    HDCA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2015 Pre-conference Health & Disability Workshop Thursday September 10th 2015, from 12:30 to 2:15pm, the Health & Disability Thematic Group of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) announces a pre-conference workshop that will take place immediately prior to the Annual conference of HDCA, on September 11-13, 2014. This workshop will bring together scholars and practitioners who have…

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