…Springer has just published the edited volume ‘The Capability Approach, Technology & Design’ in her book series ‘Philosophy of Engineering and Technology’. Many of the chapter in the book are written by members of this thematic group. The first introduction chapter to the book presents a quite extensive literature review on the topic. More information about the book….
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Special issue ‘Ethics & Information Technology’ on CA
…ommunities – Donna Vaughan, Pages 131-150 Understanding benefits realisation of iREACH from a capability approach perspective – Helena Grunfeld, Sokleap Hak, Tara Pin, Pages 151-172…
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Expert workshop ‘ICT4D & the CA’ a success
…Those of you who were at the recent 2011 HDCA conference will probably know that there was a pre-conference workshop on ICT4D and the CA. It was hosted by IICD, a Dutch NGO specializing in ICT4D. The workshop provided great interaction between academics and practitioners. To see a description of the topic on which discussions were convened, plus a photo impression of the workshop, please visit the workshop’s webpage….
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Webinar Discussion: Democratising Measurement: A Case Study from Well-Being Public Policy.
…ies is hosted by a group of junior HDCA scholars and aims at providing a forum for exchanges and discussions between junior and senior researchers and practitioners, and in combining their competencies. All are welcome. For the full webinar schedule, updates, and to register, please visit our website: http://2021webinarseries.com/ Upcoming Webinar Series Themes 1. Democratising Measurement: A Case Study from Well-Being Public Policy Anna Alexandra…
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TERI University – BLISS School 2016 on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
…also highlighted in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002. The European Union (EU), recognizing the need to promote SCP practices and thereby achieve sustainable economic development, resource efficiency, and poverty reduction, has made SCP a prime focus in its regional cooperation strategy for Asia. Given this backdrop, the TERI University in New Delhi, dedicated to providing educatio…
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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…
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In Memoriam – Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Founding HDCA Fellow
…ocial Choice and Welfare’ was launched. Social choice theorists began to scrutinize and debate Arrow’s “innocuous” conditions, and it was in particular Professor Sen, Nobel prize winner in 1998, who in the light of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem forcefully argued that the informational basis of collective choice be enriched. Such an enlargement should go beyond ordinal utilities and should include non-utility information of various kinds. One may s…
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Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS
…lities, and analyse possible ways of enhancing them. The CA can thus offer new perspectives on contemporary EJ struggles, such as those around nature conservation (Martin 2017), energy poverty and justice (Day et al. 2016; Bartiaux et al. 2018), or climate change and adaptation (Schlosberg 2012; Holland 2017). However, while these recent developments point to the relevance of the CA for exploring EJ issues, the potential for empirical application…
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Oxford 2015 International Health Congress – Call for Papers
…Oxford 2015 International Health Congress: St Hugh’s College 25-7 June 2015 Call for Abstracts: www.ihcoxford2015.org…
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CfP: Workshop “Children on the Move: Philosophy and Child Migration”
…te – 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 some arguments and thoughts in the philosophical literature concerned with migration in general are also applicable to children, this is a significant gap in the current research because of the parti…