| Announcements | |
| Lead Editor: Melanie Walker
The theorisation and application to policy and practice of human development and capabilities is growing rapidly in importance in the field of education. Education across all sectors and lifelong stages – both formal and informal - features as key to the formation of individual’s capabilities to choose and lead good lives, including effective inclusion in work, communities and society. Education further plays a significant role in developing the critical reasoning capability central to improving democratic participation and discussion.
Researchers from education, but also those working on education and capabilities in sociology, philosophy, development studies, feminist studies and economics are therefore invited to submit papers for this thematic issue. These can be either: (i) papers which seek to advance the theoretical, philosophical and conceptual reach of capabilities in relation to education; or (ii) papers which seek to draw on empirical research to apply and extend the capability approach in education, including policy applications and alternatives.
Papers of between 5000 and 8000 words should be submitted in the usual way through our on-line submission and review system: Manuscript Central. To generate an account, please go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjhd and select the "create account" box on the top right hand side of the log-in page. When submitting on-line please ensure to select the correct ‘manuscript type’ – thematic issue on education.
The deadline for submissions is 4 January 2011.
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| Posted by Ali Newcomb |
| Posted on 2010-02-11 | |
| A Multi-Disciplinary Journal of People Centred Development
Book Review Editors:
David A. Clark; Arunabha Ghosh
The Journal of Human Development and Capabilities is seeking book reviewers and books to review on the perspectives and challenges of human development, capability expansion and poverty eradication. The book review section is evenly split between theory and policy with each issue, four in total, aiming to publish up to six book reviews.
Style
Book reviews should not normally exceed 800 words.
Footnotes, endnotes, sub-headings and references should be avoided.
The review should be preceded by the full bibliographical details of the book under review including the name(s) of the book’s author(s), date of publication, title of the book, publisher, place of publication and ISBN code.
The name(s) and institutional affiliation of the book review author(s) should appear in small caps at the end of the review.
Review Articles
Longer review articles (of up to 8,000 words) will also be considered for publication at the discretion of the editors. These articles may focus on specific themes, review multiple books simultaneously and/or include commentary and analysis that goes beyond standard book reviews. Such articles will be treated as regular paper submissions and should be prepared in accordance with the notes for contributors (set out in the inside back cover of journal issues) and follow house style.
Submission
Book reviews and review articles should be sent in electronic format to the Administrative Editor, Kay Grigar, email kay.grigar@undpaffiliates.org
Publishers may send books or bound galley proofs to:
Administrative Editor
UNDP Human Development Report Office
304 East 45th Street, 12th floor
New York, NY 10017, USA.
It is advisable to contact the Administrative Editor before undertaking a review, as the Journal sometimes commissions reviews of key books. In some cases the Journal may be able to provide a complimentary copy of the book under review.
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| Posted by Ali Newcomb |
| Posted on 2010-02-11 | |
In order to promote international co-operation, particularly with developing countries, the
University of Pavia and EDiSU (Institute for the Right to University Studies) are offering, for the
year 2011, seven scholarships for visiting scholars for a period of stay of 4 to 10 weeks. Each
CICOPS Scholar will receive 200.00 Euros per week (gross) and travel (economy class1), board and
lodging expenses will be covered.
To download pdf with more information click here
To download application form click here |
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| Posted by Heidi |
| Posted on 2010-02-10 | |
| Jennifer Prah Ruger, a researcher at Yale University and a current member of HDCA has recently published a book, Health and Social Justice with the Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press.
Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and measure health disparities, and determine whether they've been adequately addressed? Who is responsible for various aspects of this important social problem? |
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| Posted by Ali Newcomb |
| Posted on 2010-02-08 | |
| Two (1+3 or +3) Quota Awards for UK or EU students are available in International Development at the University of Bath, October 2010. Applications are particularly welcome in the following areas:
wellbeing and poverty, including extreme poverty;
conflict, identity and inequality;
collective action and social mobilization;
gender, childhood and youth;
religion and ethics;
microfinance and market development;
economics of corruption and incentives;
natural resource management;
political economy of development.
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| Posted by Severine Deneulin |
| Posted on 2010-01-12 | |
| Technological and other designed products have profound and complex relationships with human capabilities. Many, perhaps most, are developed with the aim of expanding valuable freedoms and powers and have indeed made important positive contributions - ranging from new medical technologies that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives, to ICTs empowering people to play a more active role in shaping their social and political environment, to urban environments that are conducive to people's capabilities for affiliation (to mention just a few examples). Others are – in capability terms – more questionable: do chemical weapons or, less dramatically, hydrogenated fats or supercars or crystal meth really offer any expansion of the freedoms people have reason to value? The interaction between technologies / design products and human abilities and capabilities is complex – technologies are created for multiple ends and have multiple effects, positive and negative, intended and unintended, predictable and unforeseen, short and long-term. They simultaneously enable and constrain people, and they enable and constrain different people differently and over different timescales. Critical and ongoing research and analysis in this area is therefore necessary. The implications of the capability approach for technology & design (and possibly also the other way around) are only just beginning to be explored and much work remains to be done. Investigating the interaction between human capabilities, technology and design will require contributions from many academic disciplines, since questions in this area touch upon other themes such as governance, individual versus collective choice, participation, power, ideology, culture, values, ethics, economy, and sustainability. Questions may also be asked in the context of both ‘the North’ and ‘the South’. This thematic group aims to stimulate progress in the area of human capabilities, technology and design by bringing together both researchers and practitioners of diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
To join, please e-mail info@hd-ca.org |
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| Posted by Ali Newcomb |
| Posted on 2009-11-10 | |
| In this special issue of Ethics and Information Technology the relevance and implications of the
capability approach for ICT will further be explored, though not merely confined to the context of
developing countries. We invite contributions concerning both theoretical and applied issues
from all over the world and with relevance for either Western countries, developing countries, or
both.
The editors at Ethics and Information Technology are seeking articles for a special issue in this
area. Submissions will be double?blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic
rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special
issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non?themed issue.
Closing date for submissions: February 28th, 2010
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| Posted by Ali Newcomb |
| Posted on 2009-10-24 | |
| For the very first time in its history, the international basic income network will hold a meeting in Latin America, more specifically in Brazil. Every other year researchers, scholars, policy makers and politicians from different parts of the world get together to discuss alternatives that could lead to the promotion and implementation of an elementary principle of social justice: the guarantee of a monetary income, of equal value, unconditional and free of quid pro quo, to all citizens that are members of a community.
The conference main theme deals with basic income as an instrument for justice and peace.
Deadline for paper and panel submissions: February 25.
For more information, including the Call for Papers, registration information, and deadlines, please follow the link below. |
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| Posted by Andrea Vigorito |
| Posted on 2009-10-22 |
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| 2009-05-05: Nussbaum Receives Prestigious Prize for Law and Philosophy |
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