| Announcements | |
| Guest Editors Ortrud Lessmann and Felix Rauschmayer invite submissions of papers to be included in the special issue. The deadline for submissions is May 4, 2012. Though the Capability Approach (CA) focuses on well-being, the question of the Brundtland Commission on how well-being can be sustained for future generations has gained little attention within the CA literature so far. Currently, the Human Development Report 2011 and several research projects focus more on this link. This special issue of the JHDC aims at collecting and presenting current work on the issue, inviting submissions of theoretical and empirical papers alike. |
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| Posted by Heidi Fletcher |
| Posted on 2011-12-15 | |
| Deadline for abstracts submission: March 1, 2012
Guest editors: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins
A special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities on the ‘New Developmental State’ will open up new avenues of research and contribute fresh perspectives on contemporary development policy debates. The special issue would also facilitate dialogue between scholars working in a diverse array of disciplines, including economists, political scientists, human rights theorists, sociologists, and specialists on institutional change and international law.
Contributions will be invited across a range of analytical categories, including:
-Case studies of current or past developmental states and their approaches to human development and human rights in terms of policy, operation, and outcomes.
-Conceptual analyses of ‘the developmental state,’ old and new.
-Analyses of how advocates of developmental state have attempted to define and/or institutionalize the fulfillment of various categories of human rights.
-Analyses of policymaking process in developmental states as this relates to human development and human rights.
-Analyses of whether and how contemporary transitions from authoritarian rule may be embracing ideas associated with the ‘new developmental state’ paradigm.
Interested authors should send an abstract to: NewDevState2012@gmail.com.
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| Posted by Andrea Vigorito |
| Posted on 2011-12-15 | |
Please join THE HDR Office on Wednesday, 2 November at the launch of
the 2011 Human Development Report? Sustainability and Equity: A
Better Future for All. The event, attended by Danish Prime Minister
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, will be webcast live (7 am EDT / 12 pm CET /
11 am GMT) at the following address: http://on.undp.org/v2nDEC
Following the Human Development Report launch event, I invite you to
join an interactive Twitter conversation at 9.30 am EDT / 2:30 pm
CET / 1:30 pm GMT (click here for your local time). I strongly
encourage all of you to participate by using #undpchat in your tweets!
You can follow the chat on our website: http://on.undp.org/undpchat or directly on Twitter (no account required): https://twitter.com/#!/search/undpchat |
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| Posted by Heidi Fletcher |
| Posted on 2011-11-02 | |
| The thematic group The Capabilities Approach and Law aims to support the
work of scholars who are interested in the relationship between the capabilities
approaches (CA) and the law. For this purpose the notion of the law is
openly construed, including but not limited to legal systems, legal
institutions, legal theory and substantive legal domains. Their 'relational'
aspect to the capabilities approaches may be illustrated by questions of:
compatibility between law and CA; normative implications of the CA on law;
socio-legal assessment of the impact of law on capabilities.
Methodological questions concerning the 'relational' aspects between CA and
law are also pertinent to the working group.
The group welcomes anyone who is interested, to join this TG. We look forward to organizing a Seminar at the Universit of Amsterdam (2012) to launch the group and present current work .
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| Posted by Andrea Vigorito |
| Posted on 2011-10-17 | |
| Deadline for abstracts submission: January 31, 2012
Communications of acceptance: by February 15, 2012
Deadline for full papers submission: March 19, 2012
The Organization Committee of the lV Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Human Development and Human Capabilities Approach, invites academics, researchers, students, policy makers, and members of civil social organizations to participate at their 2012 meeting.
The organization is willing to receive contributions that examine the Human Capabilities Approach as interpretative frame of our region reality, in the following fields: Education and knowledge; Employment and unemployment; Social inequalities; Methodology; and Ethnicity.
The organization will welcome theoretical contributions that expand the scope of the Human Capabilities Approach, as well as applied works that answer to the different realities of Latin America and the Caribbean
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| Posted by Andrea Vigorito |
| Posted on 2011-10-17 |
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| News | | 2011-12-15: Opening for a tenured Full or Associate Professor in Applied Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland Deadline for applications: January 15, 2012 |
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| 2011-12-15: International Seminar on Pathways to Health: How intermediary life conditions mediate or modify early life effects, Berkeley, CA, USA. May 1- 2, 2012 |
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| 2011-12-15: European Conference on Educational Research 2012, University of Cádiz, Spain. 18-21 September 2012 |
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| 2011-12-15: • Health Justice. An argument from the capabilities approach, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Polity Press, 2011 |
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| 2011-06-09: New video of Martha Nussbaum discussing some of the ideas behind the Capabilities Approach |
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