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Capability Association

Agency, Well-Being and Justice

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  1. Publishing Opportunity – International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life

    …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 specific life dom…

  2. Introductory reading list

    …s (2017), Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined, Download the pdf (open access) Martha Nussbaum (2011), Creating Capabilities; The Human Development Approach. Harvard University Press. Martha Nussbaum (2000), Women and Human Development, Cambridge University Press Séverine Deneulin with Lila Shahani (eds) (2009), An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach. Séverine Deneulin (2014), Wellbei…

  3. Decolonisation in Social Work and Development: Lessons from Africa

    …ies, University of Wollongong https://scholars.uow.edu.au/rugare-mugumbate Download the slides Since the 1960s, social work in Africa has endeavoured to decolonise itself, yet colonial methodologies are still dominant in teaching, learning, practice, and research within the field. Recently, a Master of Social Work student in Zimbabwe asked me during a guest lecture “Why are we not being taught indigenous methods and decolonising practices, why is…

    HDCA Webinar Africa Asia HDCA Videos
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  4. 2015 HDCA Conference – Washington, D.C.

    *THIS CONFERENCE HAS ENDED*

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE KEYNOTE LECTURES

    The 2015 HDCA  conference will be hosted by Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. on the theme:

    “Capabilities on the Move: Mobility and Aspirations”

    September 10-13, 2015

    The 2015 HDCA Program Committee cordially invites scholars, government policy makers, practitioners and other interested parties from all over the world to participate in the 2015 HDCA conference.  Original empirical research, theoretical issues, case-studies or reports of experiences, or findings from major research projects, and book panels relevant to conference theme or more broadly related to human development/capabilities approach will be presented.

     

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