Flavio Comim / Mozaffar Qizilbash / Sabina Alkire (eds.)

The Capability Approach

Concepts, Measures and Applications
Herausgeber: Alkire, Sabina; Qizilbash, Mozaffar; Comim, Flavio

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Produktbeschreibung

The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the strength of the often misunderstood individual focus of the capability approach. Part II investigates the techniques by which we can measure and compare capabilities, and how we can integrate them into poverty comparisons and policy advice. Finally, Part III looks at how we can apply the capability approach to different regions and contexts. Written by a team of international scholars, The Capability Approach is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students concerned with the debate over the value of the capability approach and its potential applications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1169g
• ISBN-13: 9780521862875
• ISBN-10: 0521862876
• Artikelnr.: 22781794

Autorenporträt

Flavio Comim is Director of the Capability and Sustainability Centre at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.
Mozaffar Qizilbash is Professor of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York.
Sabina Alkire is Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford and Research Associate with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; 1. Using the capability
approach: prospective and evaluative analyses Sabina Alkire; Part I.
Concepts: 2. Amartya Sen's capability view: insightful sketch or distorted
picture? Mozaffar Qizilbash; 3. Sen's capability approach and feminist
concerns Ingrid Robeyns; 4. Beyond individual freedom and agency:
structures of living together in the capability approach to development
Séverine Deneulin; 5. Does identity matter? On the relevance of identity
and interaction for capabilities Miriam Teschl and Laurent Derobert; 6.
Measuring Capabilities Flavio Comim; Part II. Measures: 7. Do concepts
matter? An empirical investigation of the differences between a capability
and a monetary assessment of poverty Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi; 8. Social
exclusion in the EU: a capability-based approach Fotis Papadopoulos and
Panos Tsakloglou; 9. Complexity and vagueness in the capability approach:
strengths or weaknesses? Enrica Chiappero Martinetti; 10. Operationalising
Sen's capability approach: the influence of the selected technique Sara
Lelli; 11. Operationalizing capabilities in a segmented society: the role
of institutions Kanchan Chopra and Anantha Kumar Duraiappah; Part III.
Applications: 12. Democracy, decentralisation and access to basic services:
an elaboration on Sen's capability approach Santosh Mehrotra; 13.
Reinforcing household's capabilities as a way to reduce vulnerability and
prevent poverty in equitable terms Jean-Luc Dubois and Sophie Rousseau; 14.
Capabilities over the lifecourse: at what age does poverty damage most?
Shahin Yaqub; 15. Social policy and the ability to appear in public without
shame: some lessons from a food relief programme in Kinshasa Tom De Herdt;
16. The capability approach and gendered education:some issues of
operationalisation in the context of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in South Africa
Elaine Unterhalter; 17. Women and poverty In Mozambique: is there a gender
bias In capabilities, employment conditions and living standards? Pier
Giogio Ardeni and Antonio Andracchio; 18. From the quantity to the quality
of employment: an application of the capability approach to the Chilean
labour market Kirsten Sehnbruch; Index.