Capabilities, power, and institutions
Subtitle: toward a more critical development ethics
By: edited by Stephen L. Esquith and Fred Gifford
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780271036618
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Instrumental freedoms and human capabilities / Sabina Alkire; title: The missing squirm factor in Amartya Sen's capability approach / A. Allan Schmid; title: Institutions, inequality,and well-being: distributive determinants of capabilities realization / Daniel Little; title: Development ethics through the lenses of caring, gender, and human security / Des Gasper, Thanh-Dam Truong; title: A methodologically pragmatist approach to development ethics / Asunción Lera St. Clair; title: Social development, capabilities, and the contradictions of (capitalist) development / Shelley Feldman; title: The struggle for local autonomy in a multiethnic society: constructing alternatives with indigenous epistemologies / David Barkin; title: Capabilities, consequentialism, and critical consciousness / Paul B. Thompson; title: Development and globalization: the ethical challenges / Nigel Dower.