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  1. Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics special issue

    …s the key driver of climate injustice. The expansion of production, infrastructure, and services has often ignored consideration of the broader ecosystem in which it occurs, under assumptions about an earth with endless resources and capacity to absorb human waste. One of the first and foremost connections between climate change and global development is that both involve a strong anthropocentric worldview; this has limited human understanding of…

  2. Children and Youth: Updated Literature Review – March 2019

    The Children and Youth thematic group is happy to share a revised literature review on children and the capability approach, updated as of March 2019. This is the result of a collective effort among TG members to help scholars and practitioners to navigate across existing materials. Click here to download….

  3. Webinar: Horizontal inequalities and intersectionality

    …introduction, Frances and Chiara will present findings from their latest research on Horizontal and Intersecting Inequalities. After the panel presentation there will be a question and answer session open to all online participants. The last 20 minutes of the webinar will be reserved for an open discussion on participants’ current work on these themes and an opportunity to exchange with other people working in this area. To register to attend this…

  4. Amartya Sen Selected as Routledge ‘Great Economist’

    …Amartya Sen is being featured in the Routledge ‘Great Economists Series.’ A collection of articles about Sen’s work published in Routledge journals can be found on the Taylor & Francis website: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/bes/great-economists/great-economists-sen…

  5. JUST PUBLISHED! The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach

    …ts approaching the capability approach for the first time as well as for researchers engaged in advanced research in a wide range of disciplines, including development studies, economics, gender studies, political science and political philosophy. Publisher:Cambridge University Press Online publication date:November 2020 Print publication year:2020 Online ISBN:9781316335741 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335741 More information: https://www.c…

  6. WEBINAR: On Capability, Human Development and Their Measurement

    Friday, 22 June 2018, 9 am UK Key-Note Address of the Cambridge Capability Conference by Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York We invite you all to join us for a webinar where we will broadcast as a webinar the Key-Note address of the Cambridge Capability Conference which will take place this Friday, 22 June 2018 at 9:00am UK time. Dr. Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, will address the conference on the topic ‘On Capability, Human Deve…

  7. Education panel proposals for HDCA Athens conference

    …topic of this HDCA 2014 conference suggests “over the past five years the world has experienced its worst economic crisis in decades […] For industrialized countries in the Global North, many hard fought achievements with regard to social protections are being cut back affecting many people’s fundamental life prospects. Therefore, throughout the world, the crisis is not mainly a financial one; the economic crisis has created a crisis of ideas abo…

  8. NEW European Commission Report: Multidimensional Perspectives on Inequality: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges

    the report here Abstract: A recently published European Commission Joint Research Centre report summarises some of the most relevant theoretical and empirical challenges associated with the measurement and analysis of multidimensional inequalities. Each section delves into a specific topic, presents a state-of-the-art review of the key findings in that particular area, and proposes a number of policy recommendations and avenues for further researc…

  9. Webinar: Children’s Feeling of Security – A View from the Capability Approach

    …, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina This webinar shares the results of a research project conducted by the Social Sciences Research Centre (CICS-UP) of Palermo University (Argentina) dedicated to understanding and describing the views of children between 8 and 12 years old living in different contexts of the Metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. Starting from the theoretical introduction on children-security and capability approach, the speakers will…

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