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  1. 2022 HDCA Conference – Antwerp, Belgium

    The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.

    “Capabilities and Transformative Institutions”

    How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well  in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.

    Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.

  2. Call for support: Big Jump Challenge – European water solidarity youth campaign

    …e.ec.europa.eu/socialinnovationeurope/node/4686. Big Jump Challenge Flyer: http://www.rivernet.org/bigjump/pdf/bj_challenge/BigJump_Flyer_EN.pdf Big Jump River Reconciliation Film: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYTAgi4M0DJx4aLiAhh2ryA [activate English subtitles] Big Jump Challenge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigJumpChallenge  …

  3. Podcast

    …iley.com/en-gb/Health+Justice%3A+An+Argument+from+the+Capabilities+Approach-p-9780745650340 EPISODE 3: Introducing the Early Career Researchers and Practitioners Network https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q9S9fImlNKpI5sCDXZaxR In this episode we speak to organisers of the Early Careers Researchers and Practitioners Network.  Organisers Raphael Ng, Abigail Lennox, Dorothy Ferary & Gareth Wall join us to discuss the group, its history and its purpose…

  4. Work and Employment Group: Intro

    …rent cycle of labour law modernisation programmes in the UK and elsewhere. —– Thematic panel – “Reasons to value work – instrumental or intrinsic to wellbeing? Conceptual issues in capability accounts of work and employment” at 2024 HDCA Conference – September 2024 The Thematic Group Work and Employment convened a thematic panel “Reasons to value work – instrumental or intrinsic to wellbeing? Conceptual issues in capability accounts of work and…

  5. CfP: On Poverty and Its Eradication

    …thor, you will benefit from: – High visibility with a freely downloadable e-book – Rigorous, transparent and fast peer review – Advanced impact metrics SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted through this link, using the “Submit your manuscript” button: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/27921/ and must follow paper templates available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines#Templates Publishing solutions: – Manuscripts w…

  6. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. A Sociological Perspective

    …s report, the manufacturing sector, which had already seen the slowest year-on-year growth rate since 2012, was hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. This led to a global drop in manufacturing production of 8.4 per cent in 2020. Alongside job losses and declining income for workers, the pandemic has significantly disrupted global supply chains and severely affected small-scale industries. Less technology-intensive industries have also take…

  7. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty. A Sociological Perspective

    …for example, response and recovery plans, programs, strategies, and funds. – Comparative social policy studies, including differences across nations, a variety of policy ideas and policy instruments, and policy transfer and learning. – Multi-level, cross-sectoral, and multi-sectoral cooperation of various stakeholders, including public, private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and non-formal entities. – Evaluation of poverty reduction schem…

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