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Capabilities, Power, and Institutions:

Toward a More Critical Development Ethics
  • ISBN-13: 9780271036625
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Stephen L. Esquith, Edited by Fred Gifford
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 07/05/2010
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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A collection of essays that extend, criticize, and reformulate the capability approach to human development, originally formulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, in order to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Institutions and Urgency

Stephen L. Esquith

1. Instrumental Freedoms and Human Capabilities

Sabina Alkire

2. The Missing Squirm Factor in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach

A. Allan Schmid

3. Institutions, Inequality, and Well-Being: Distributive Determinants of Capabilities Realization

Daniel Little

4. Development Ethics Through the Lenses of Caring, Gender, and Human Security

Des Gasper and Thanh-Dam Truong

5. A Methodologically Pragmatist Approach to Development Ethics

Asuncioń Lera St. Clair

6. Social Development, Capabilities, and the Contradictions of (Capitalist) Development

Shelley Feldman

7. The Struggle for Local Autonomy in a Multiethnic Society: Constructing Alternatives with Indigenous Epistemologies

David Barkin

8. Capabilities, Consequentialism, and Critical Consciousness

Paul B. Thompson

9. Development and Globalization: The Ethical Challenges

Nigel Dower

Contributors

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