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Capability Association

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  1. JHDC Call for Papers – Special Issue on Participatory Research

    …ts to promote, study and report people’s capabilities make no tangible attempt to engage with ordinary people or empower the poor through participatory processes’. So, the point is not simply to engage with participants in what seems to us an empowering experience but to reclaim the open-ended epistemological ground to reshape and align with other conceptions of (well)being, doing and experiencing in ways that can connect with our theoretical posi…

  2. HDCA Undergraduate Workshop: Introduction to the Capability Approach

    13 January, 2021, 1-2.30pm (UK time) This will be our first undergraduate workshop in a series of three. Following requests from HDCA members we will focus on introductory and foundational concepts related to the capability approach. This workshop is aimed primarily at undergraduates so please sign up if you are an undergraduate working with the capability approach [this event is open to undergraduate HDCA members and non-members]. If places rema…

  3. Bouncing back or bouncing forward: social resilience, social rights and capabilities in the post-Covid19 Europe

    Date – 26 January 2021 Time – 1-2.30pm UTC DESCRIPTION Ongoing changes in European welfare states call for a new, dynamic and multifaceted understanding of social citizenship. On the one hand, the endorsement of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017 provides a framework to foster upward social convergence among the member states and increases the centrality of social policies in the European architecture. On the other hand, recurring shock…

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