Blogs about: Capabilities Approach
Featured Blog
Nussbaum on Animals
I told Amanda that I would comment on the last section of FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE: DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, SPECIES MEMBERSHIP, by Martha C. Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 2006. The last section foc… more →
Independent Studies on Consequentialism, Rand, and Nussbaum
Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach (Exposition)
— 8 comments
wrote 6 days ago: I’m currently looking into what’s called the ‘capabilities approach’ in poli … more →
ICT4D Semester Reflections
— 1 comment
wrote 3 weeks ago: Entering this course, I was unsure what I would get out of it. I am not particularly interested in … more →
ICT4D; Lessons Learned
wrote 3 weeks ago: In today’s world, ever globalizing use information communication technologies is shaping deve … more →
The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework: Technology as an Equalizer
wrote 3 months ago: In the last class, we discussed some of the approaches to development, not necessarily directly rela … more →
The Growing Importance of Technology in Development
wrote 5 months ago: Overall, this course has opened my eyes to the challenges of a very specific tool that has growing p … more →
Human Development and Capability Association, 2012 Annual Conference in Jakarta
wrote 8 months ago: I end my long hiatus with the following brief description of this year’s HDCA conference. Deve … more →
A Capabilities Approach for Kenyan Fishermen
— 3 comments
wrote 8 months ago: As the article explains, the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KEMFRI) has introduced a … more →
How is GDP like a Honda Accord?
— 2 comments
wrote 11 months ago: …Oh my gosh, in so so SO many ways. Well, in a couple, at least. Like GDP, the Honda Accord is … more →
Social Policy (Post 11)
wrote 1 year ago: Beyond Rationalism: Hypothesizing a Moral Dimension to State Motivation Rationalism, or the idea tha … more →
Transformation in Auckland
wrote 1 year ago: Transformation is a wondrous thing. It is more than change: it is a shift from one state into anothe … more →
UN: Gaza’s Youth ‘Denied Higher Education’ by Israeli Blockade
wrote 1 year ago: UN: Gaza’s Youth ‘Denied Higher Education’ by Israeli Blockade IRIN for the Guardian Development Net … more →
The Lasting Effect of Conflict on South Sudan's Education System
wrote 1 year ago: The Lasting Effect of Conflict on South Sudan’s Education System Original media source from Re … more →
Summary of DSRC seminar on Nussbaum's Aristotelian roots
wrote 1 year ago: On 15 Feb, Dr Severine Deneulin (University of Bath) presented her paper on the Aristotelian roots o … more →
Global economic justice
wrote 1 year ago: by Daniel Little My subject here is the role of ethical principles in the conduct of economic develo … more →
Painting the future of Anam
wrote 1 year ago: a gathering The children of Anam are talented and creative individuals. They are strong, smily and f … more →
The Ethics of Human Rights (49): Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach
— 5 comments
wrote 1 year ago: (source) How do these two approaches to global ethics compare? Strikingly well as it turns out. I ca … more →
Applying a Capability Approach
wrote 1 year ago: It is increasingly clear that whatever your profession there are certain creative capabilities that … more →
The Examined Life
wrote 2 years ago: I watched this documentary about living an ‘examined life’ (the movie, if you couldn … more →
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?
— 3 comments
wrote 2 years ago: Countries by population density I think I’ve discussed elsewhere how I’m frustrated some … more →
