Wellbeing Freedom And Social Justice

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783744244

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

Author : Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013289463

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues.Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking.This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521862876

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The Capability Approach by Flavio Comim,Mozaffar Qizilbash,Sabina Alkire Pdf

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.

Author : Severine Deneulin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317962687

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Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics by Severine Deneulin Pdf

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and compelling ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. This book outlines in a clear and concrete way what the capability approach is and its significance for the social sciences and policy. It describes the distinctiveness of the approach as an ethical framework for action and aims to stimulate critical reflection on current economic and social practices as well as providing a language with which to modify them within human wellbeing concerns. Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference.

Author : Madison Powers,Ruth Faden,Ruth R. Faden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195375138

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Social Justice by Madison Powers,Ruth Faden,Ruth R. Faden Pdf

This volume develops a theory of social justice for the specific context of health care policy, although it can also be applied to education, economic development and other social policy issues where resources are limited.

Author : Nikola Hobbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136990885

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Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum by Nikola Hobbel Pdf

What knowledge and tools do pre- and in-service educators need to teach for and about social justice across the curriculum in K-12 classrooms? This compelling text synthesizes in one volume historical foundations, philosophic/theoretical conceptualizations, and applications of social justice education in public school classrooms. Part one details the history of the multicultural movement and the instantiation of public schooling as a social justice project. Part two connects theoretical frameworks to social justice curricula. Parts I and II are general to all K-12 classrooms. Part three provides powerful specific subject-area examples of good practice, including English as a Second Language and Special/ Exceptional Education Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum includes highlighted 'Points of Inquiry' and 'Points of Praxi's sections offering recommendations to teachers and researchers and activities, resources, and suggested readings. These features invite teachers at all stages of their careers to reflect on the role of social justice in education, particularly as it relates to their particular classrooms, schools, and communities. Relevant for any course that addresses history, theory, or practice of multicultural/social justice education, this text is ideal for classes that are not subject-level specific and serve a host of students from various backgrounds.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674452569

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Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen Pdf

The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum “all people are created equal” serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives. By concentrating on the equity and efficiency of social arrangements in promoting freedoms and capabilities of individuals, Sen adds an important new angle to arguments about such vital issues as gender inequalities, welfare policies, affirmative action, and public provision of health care and education.

Author : Melanie Walker,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230604810

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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education by Melanie Walker,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education. Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307874290

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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Author : Barry S. Levy,Victor W. Sidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199939220

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Social Injustice and Public Health by Barry S. Levy,Victor W. Sidel Pdf

This second edition of Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based resource on the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, this integrated book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on health and makes recommendations on what needs to be done to reduce social injustice and thereby improve the public's health. Social Injustice and Public Health is divided into four parts: · The nature of social injustice and its impact on public health · How the health of specific population groups is affected by social injustice · How social injustice adversely affects medical care, infectious and chronic non-communicable disease, nutrition, mental health, violence, environmental and occupational health, oral health, and aspects of international health · What needs to be done, such as addressing social injustice in a human rights context, promoting social justice through public health policies and programs, strengthening communities, and promoting equitable and sustainable human development With 78 contributors who are experts in their respective subject areas, this textbook is ideal for students and practitioners in public health, medicine, nursing, and other health sciences. It is the definitive resource for anyone seeking to better understand the social determinants of health and how to address them to reduce social injustice and improve the public's health.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674060470

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The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen Pdf

Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.

Author : Bina Agarwal,Jane Humphries,Ingrid Robeyns
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Feminist economics
ISBN : UVA:X030504526

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Capabilities, Freedom, and Equality by Bina Agarwal,Jane Humphries,Ingrid Robeyns Pdf

Author : Glenn Muschert,Kristen Budd,Michelle Christian,Robert Perrucci
Publisher : SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447354284

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Agenda for Social Justice by Glenn Muschert,Kristen Budd,Michelle Christian,Robert Perrucci Pdf

Examining topics from criminal justice to media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems and issues concerning sexualities and gender, the 2020 agenda provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems.

Author : Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191046551

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The Minority Body by Elizabeth Barnes Pdf

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon—a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement. Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

Author : Sir Sridhar Venkatapuram
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780745637501

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Health Justice by Sir Sridhar Venkatapuram Pdf

Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophical approaches to health and social justice, the debates have largely focused on rationing problems in health care and on personal responsibility. However, a range of events over the past two decades such as the study of modern famines, the global experience of HIV/AIDS, the international women’s health movement, and the flourishing of social epidemiological research have drawn attention to the robust relationship between health and broad social arrangements. In Health Justice, Sridhar Venkatapuram takes up the problem of identifying what claims individuals have in regard to their health in modern societies and the globalized world. Recognizing the social bases of health and longevity, Venkatapuram extends the ‘Capabilities Approach’ of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum into the domain of health and health sciences. In so doing, he formulates an inter-disciplinary argument that draws on the natural and social sciences as well as debates around social justice to argue for every human being’s moral entitlement to a capability to be healthy. An ambitious integration of the health sciences and the Capabilities Approach, Health Justice aims to provide a concrete ethical grounding for the human right to health, while advancing the field of health policy and placing health at the centre of social justice theory. With a foreword by Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.