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
…t will be preceded by a half day conference in Paris on September 17 where new indicators of welfare will be discussed. For additional information about this conference, please contact Kelly Labart at kelly.labart@ferdi.fr. Scientific committee: Gordon Anderson (University of Toronto), Conchita d’Ambrosio (INSIDE, University of Luxembourg), Florent Bresson (CERDI, University of Auvergne), Vianney Dequiedt (CERDI, University of Auvergne), Jean-Yves…
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Call for Papers: 1st International Conference on Aporophobia
…stics produced by its different sessions into concrete actions to make the world less aporophobic. To this end, proposals are also invited for workshops that explore aporophobia as a real-world problem and that can take place at IQS or in a collaborating institution. On the same line, the conference will conclude with the reading of a ‘manifesto against aporophobia’ elaborated by the institutions that organise this conference. In order to produce…
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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…
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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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Call for Abstract / Papers for an Edited Volume: “Application of Capability Approach to Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”
…pted abstract is 30 September 2021. Papers should be formatted as follows: Times new roman, 12 pt., double-spaced. Abstract and papers should be submitted to ac8172@coventry.ac.uk in word processing formats (Doc or Docx). • Copyright: Papers submitted to the edited volume should not have been published elsewhere in their current or substantial similar format. Additionally, the papers should not be under consideration for publication with another p…
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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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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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Publishing Opportunity – International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
Proposals are now being accepted for the International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. http://www.springer.com/series/8365 The International Handbooks of Quality of Life Research offer extensive bibliographic resources. They present literature reviews of the many sub-disciplines and areas of study within the growing field of quality of life research. Handbooks in the series focus on capturing and reviewing the quality of life research literature in…
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WEBINAR: Capability as informational basis for work and employment politics – a European re-search experience
April 21 at 4 pm CET Sponsored by the HDCA Work & Employment Thematic Group One of the opportunities our thematic network offers is to take stock of capability theories and concepts in the field of employment and work. The upcoming webinar is an exercise in such stock-taking: three members of the TG will look back on a collaborative experience in a pivotal European integrated Project. In CAPRIGHT (Resources, Rights and Capabilities: In search of…