View all member of this group Bibliography on the CA & innovation / technology / design This group on LinkedIn Take a look at relevant news & events at he bottom of this page! On the topic of this group: Technology, Innovation, and Design The design of products and services has profound and complex relationships with human capabilities. Indeed, many products and services – from technological innovations to social innovations – are developed wit…
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Empowerment & Collective Capabilities Intro
In recent years, a growing body of literature adopted the capability approach and sought to analyze its links to collective action, empowerment and community mobilization. The aim of this group is to provide a forum for discussion among scholars, practitioners and also policymakers working on these issues. It enriches the intellectual debate on the multiple ‘spaces’ of human capabilities and seeks to extend the analysis of human capabilities from…
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Health & Disability Intro
This thematic group is a network of social scientists, physicians, public health practitioners, and philosophers interested in health and disability issues from a capability perspective. Through the past several conferences on the capability approach and now through our growing network of participants worldwide, group participants have begun to examine a number of issues at the nexus of health, disability and capability including, but not exclusi…
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Indigenous People Intro
Indigenous peoples have historically been the poorest and most excluded populations in many parts of the world. They have suffered serious discriminations in terms of their basic rights to land, resources, language, culture, citizenship, access to basic services as well as the denial of essential conditions to lead a healthy and satisfying life. The main objective of this thematic group is to investigate how the capability approach can be applied…
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Children and Youth Thematic Group: Introduction
‘Children and Youth Capabilities TG’ is an interdisciplinary network including, among others, economists, social scientists, anthropologists, demographers, statisticians, philosophers and psychologists. It aims at developing a bottom up framework based on the capability approach to address theoretical and practical issues related to children’s human development. We have organised numerous international meetings and workshops to stimulate debate o…
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Ethics and Development Intro
The HDCA Ethics and Development Group brings together a range of interested thinkers and practitioners concerned with ethics in both its theoretical and applied forms. While the group engages with a wide range of topics relating to development – including culture and identity, democracy, environment, gender, justice, rights and poverty – it will also be concerned with theoretical issues, such as the merits of alternative ethical theories. Activit…
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Horizontal Inequality Intro
“Remove the secondary causes that have produced the great convulsions of the world and you will almost always find the principle of inequality at the bottom. Either the poor have attempted to plunder the rich, or the rich to enslave the poor. If, then, a society can ever be founded in which everyman shall have something to keep and little to take from others, much will have been done for peace” (de Tocqueville 1835, quote from 1954 edition,: 266)…
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Special issue ‘Information Technology for Development’ on CA
The journal ‘Information Technology for Development’ has just published a special issue on the capability approach. It contains 6 articles, some of them written by members of our thematic group. The articles are: Development as freedom; how the Capability Approach can be used in ICT4D research and practice (editorial) – Annika Andersson, Åke Grönlund & Gudrun Wicander Building collective capabilities through ICT in a mountain region of Nepal: whe…
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Edited volume ‘The CA, Technology & Design’ published
… 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
The journal ‘Ethics and Information Technology’ has recently published a special issue on the capability approach. Several of the articles in the issue are written by members of this thematic group. Articles in this issue are: Editorial: ICT and the capability approach – Ilse Oosterlaken, Jeroen van den Hoven, Pages 65-67 Technology, capabilities and critical perspectives: what can critical theory contribute to Sen’s capability approach? – Yingqi…