Journal articles: 'Sen's capability approach'

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Walker, Melanie. "Amartya Sen's capability approach and education." Educational Action Research 13, no. 1 (March 2005): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09650790500200279.

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QIZILBASH, MOZAFFAR. "Sugden's Critique of the Capability Approach." Utilitas 23, no. 1 (February 15, 2011): 25–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820810000439.

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In comparing Sen's work with Mill's, Sugden criticizes Sen's capability approach because it may be applied in such a way that society or theorists judge what is best for people and potentially restrict liberty on that basis. Sugden cites Nussbaum's work as evidence in making his case. Sugden's critique of Sen's approach succeeds on a narrow reading of it. On that reading Sen is also critical of it because it does not leave enough room for liberty. On a broad reading, the critique has less force. Nussbaum's approach follows Mill in allowing people freedom to act on whatever desires they have if this does not harm others. This neutralizes the central element of Sugden's critique as it applies to her approach to some degree. Both Sen and Nussbaum nonetheless recognize the danger of illiberal restrictions in application which motivates Sugden's critique.

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Yun-Kyoung chung. "Amartya Sen's the Capability approach and education." Journal of Educational Idea 29, no. 3 (August 2015): 129–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17283/jkedi.2015.29.3.129.

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GASPER, DES. "Sen's capability approach and Nussbaum's capabilities ethic." Journal of International Development 9, no. 2 (March 1997): 281–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199703)9:2<281::aid-jid438>3.0.co;2-k.

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OLSARETTI, SERENA. "ENDORSEMENT AND FREEDOM IN AMARTYA SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH." Economics and Philosophy 21, no. 1 (April 2005): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267104000409.

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A central question for assessing the merits of Amartya Sen's capability approach as a potential answer to the “distribution of what”? question concerns the exact role and nature of freedom in that approach. Sen holds that a person's capability identifies that person's effective freedom to achieve valuable states of beings and doings, or functionings, and that freedom so understood, rather than achieved functionings themselves, is the primary evaluative space. Sen's emphasis on freedom has been criticised by G. A. Cohen, according to whom the capability approach either uses too expansive a definition of freedom or rests on an implausibly active, indeed “athletic,” view of well-being. This paper defends the capability approach from this criticism. It argues that we can view the capability approach to be underpinned by an account of well-being which takes the endorsement of valuable functionings as constitutive of well-being, and by a particular view of the way in which endorsement relates to force and choice.

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Scholtes, Fabian. "Whose Sustainability? Environmental Domination and Sen's Capability Approach." Oxford Development Studies 38, no. 3 (September 2010): 289–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2010.505683.

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Robeyns, Ingrid. "SEN'S CAPABILITY APPROACH AND GENDER INEQUALITY: SELECTING RELEVANT CAPABILITIES." Feminist Economics 9, no. 2-3 (January 2003): 61–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1354570022000078024.

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Saito, Madoka. "Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to Education: A Critical Exploration." Journal of Philosophy of Education 37, no. 1 (February 2003): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.3701002.

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Cameron, Kate. "The capability approach: Enabling musical learning." British Journal of Music Education 29, no. 3 (November 2012): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051712000356.

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Amartya Sen's capability approach offers a new perspective for educators throughout the curriculum. This new insight has the potential to promote a music education that is inherently tailored to the individual. In essence it asks the question: What is music education going to offer to this student? This article represents an initial enquiry into the capability approach when applied to music education. With a theoretical understanding of the capability approach its application can provide insight into pupil voice, teacher voice, growing student autonomy and differentiation.

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Unterhalter, Elaine. "The Capabilities Approach and Gendered Education." Theory and Research in Education 1, no. 1 (March 2003): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878503001001002.

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This article examines Amartya Sen's writings on the capabilities approach and education. Sen sometimes suggests a loose association between education and schooling. Elsewhere he concludes that one can read off the outputs of schooling as an indication of capabilities and an enhancement of freedom. While the capability approach provides a valuable way beyond human capital theorizing about education, Sen's writing fails to take account of the complex settings in which schooling takes place. Sometimes schooling does not entail an enhancement of capabilities and substantive freedom. South African policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic highlight how using the capability approach to evaluation without paying attention to conditions of gender and race inequality yield only half the picture.

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Olsaretti, Serena. "Freedom's Value: Some Persisting Questions for Amartya Sen's Capability Approach." Jurisprudence 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 369–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5235/20403313.5.2.369.

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Otieno, Odoyo Collins, and Samuel Liyala. "Mobile Money Users' Functionings and Freedoms: Amartya Sen's Capability Approach." World Journal of Computer Application and Technology 6, no. 1 (February 2018): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.13189/wjcat.2018.060102.

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Oosterlaken, Ilse. "Inserting Technology in the Relational Ontology of Sen's Capability Approach." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 12, no. 3 (August 2011): 425–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2011.576661.

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HICK, ROD. "The Capability Approach: Insights for a New Poverty Focus." Journal of Social Policy 41, no. 2 (December 21, 2011): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279411000845.

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AbstractThe concepts of poverty, social exclusion and deprivation are widely employed but often problematic. This paper discusses some problems with prominent interpretations of these concepts and how Amartya Sen's capability approach can provide a conceptual framework that can overcome these problems. It is argued that the capability approach can reflect the many ways that human lives are blighted and that it thus offers a promising framework for poverty analysis. Six insights for poverty analysis provided by the capability approach are discussed.

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Ray, Namrata, and T. V. Sekher. "Assessing the Well-Being of India's Elderly:Applying Amartya Sen's Capability Approach." Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics 58, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.21648/arthavij/2016/v58/i4/153061.

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CAKMAK, Hatice. "Can Sen's Capability Approach Present an Alternative Paradigm to Mainstream Economics?" Ekonomik Yaklasim 19, no. 68 (2008): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/ey.10668.

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Clark, David A. "Sen's capability approach and the many spaces of human well-being." Journal of Development Studies 41, no. 8 (November 2005): 1339–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220380500186853.

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Gasper, Des. "Is Sen's Capability Approach an Adequate Basis for Considering Human Development?" Review of Political Economy 14, no. 4 (October 2002): 435–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0953825022000009898.

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Pfister, Thomas. "Citizenship and capability? Amartya Sen's capabilities approach from a citizenship perspective." Citizenship Studies 16, no. 2 (April 2012): 241–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2012.667615.

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Srinivasan, Sharath. "No Democracy without Justice: Political Freedom in Amartya Sen's Capability Approach." Journal of Human Development 8, no. 3 (November 2007): 457–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649880701462395.

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Schischka, John, Paul Dalziel, and Caroline Saunders. "Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Poverty Alleviation Programs: Two Case Studies." Journal of Human Development 9, no. 2 (July 2008): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649880802078777.

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Frediani, Alexandre Apsan. "Sen's Capability Approach as a framework to the practice of development." Development in Practice 20, no. 2 (March 9, 2010): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614520903564181.

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Qizilabash, Mozaffar. "Well-being and Despair: Dante's Ugolino." Utilitas 9, no. 2 (July 1997): 227–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095382080000529x.

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This paper considers three sorts of account of the quality of life. These are (1) capability views, due to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, (2) desire accounts and (3) the prudential value list theory of James Griffin. Each approach is evaluated in the context of a tale of cannibalism and moral decay: the story of Count Ugolino in Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is argued that the example causes difficulties for Sen's version of the capability approach, as well as for desire accounts. Nussbaum's version of the capability approach deals withthe example better than Sen's. However, it fails adequately to accommodate pluralism. I suggest that James Griffin's account of well-being deals well with this example and accommodates pluralism. I suggest that, of the views considered, Griffin's is the best account of the quality of life.

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QIZILBASH, MOZAFFAR. "Capability, Happiness and Adaptation in Sen and J. S. Mill." Utilitas 18, no. 1 (February 16, 2006): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820805001809.

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While there is much common ground between the writings of Amartya Sen and John Stuart Mill – particularly in their advocacy of freedom and gender equality – one is a critic, while the other is an advocate, of utilitarianism. In spite of this contrast, there are strong echoes of Sen's capability approach in Mill's writings. Inasmuch as Mill sees the capability to be happy as important he holds a form of capability approach. He also thinks of happiness as constituted by the exercise of certain capabilities (including the higher faculties). Furthermore, Mill addresses the possibility that people can adapt to limited opportunity, which is central to Sen's critique of some ‘utility’-based views. By contrasting contentment and happiness Mill suggests one way in which a utilitarian might address cases of adaptation. His discussions of capabilities and of adaptation are consistent with his utilitarianism.

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Martins, Nuno Ornelas. "Sen's capability approach and Post Keynesianism: similarities, distinctions, and the Cambridge tradition." Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 31, no. 4 (July 1, 2009): 691–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/pke0160-3477310409.

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GORE, CHARLES. "Irreducibly social goods and the informational basis of Amartya Sen's capability approach." Journal of International Development 9, no. 2 (March 1997): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199703)9:2<235::aid-jid436>3.0.co;2-j.

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SCHMIDT, JÜRGEN. "Public services in Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main compared (c. 1890–1914): capabilities in Prussia?" Urban History 41, no. 2 (June 24, 2013): 247–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926813000576.

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ABSTRACTHow can a modern concept like Amartya Sen's capability approach be introduced in historical studies? One possibility is to ask how public services were implemented in municipal policy and how these services open up capabilities for the individuals of a city. This article uses Sen's theoretical framework as an analytical tool to explore two Prussian towns, Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main, and their public services (job centres and tramway systems) as examples of social policy at the local level.

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Lyou, Ji-Han. "The Problem of Distinguishing Welfare and Agency in A. K. Sen's Capability Approach." Journal of Ethics Education Studies 54 (October 31, 2019): 193–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.18850/jees.2019.54.07.

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Dang, Ai-Thu. "Amartya Sen's Capability Approach: A Framework for Well-Being Evaluation and Policy Analysis?" Review of Social Economy 72, no. 4 (September 15, 2014): 460–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2014.958903.

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UNTERHALTER, ELAINE. "Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: the potential of Sen's capability approach for sociologists of education." British Journal of Sociology of Education 24, no. 5 (November 2003): 665–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142569032000148708.

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Karaçay, Çakmak. "Can the capability approach be evaluated within the frame of mainstream economics?: A methodological analysis." Panoeconomicus 57, no. 1 (2010): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pan1001085k.

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The aim of this article is to examine the capability approach of Amartya Sen and mainstream economic theory in terms of their epistemological, methodological and philosophical/cultural aspects. The reason for undertaking this analysis is the belief that Sen's capability approach, contrary to some economists' claim, is uncongenial to mainstream economic views on epistemology and methodology (not on ontologically). However, while some social scientists regard that Sen, on the whole, is a mainstream economist, his own approach strongly criticizes both the theory and practice of mainstream economics.

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Britz, Johannes, Anthony Hoffmann, Shana Ponelis, Michael Zimmer, and Peter Lor. "On considering the application of Amartya Sen's capability approach to an information-based rights framework." Information Development 29, no. 2 (August 6, 2012): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666912454025.

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Hayati, Safaah Restuning, and Miftakhul Khasanah. "THE ROLE OF COOPERATIVES IN THE SMES EMPOWERMENT IN RURAL AREAS." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 2 (March 19, 2019): 226–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7225.

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Purpose: This study aims to analyze the role of Mitra Dhuafa Cooperative in Gemolong Sub-district of Sragen, Indonesia, in empowering rural microenterprise, and to analyze its success rate by measuring the correlation between micro financing and the level of capability, and poverty alleviation. Methodology: The method used in this study is quantitative analysis. The data collection was obtained through a survey by distributing questionnaires to 100 members of Mitra Dhuafa Cooperative. The data was analyzed using Somers'd Correlation Test, with Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. Main Findings: The result of data analysis shows a positive relation (0.320) between the level of capability of micro business actors and poverty alleviation. The Indicators of empowerment success were measured by Amartya Sen's capability indicators, namely, opportunities and access in the economic, social, health, education, openness, and security fields. The research concludes by stating that Mitra Dhuafa Cooperative has succeeded in reducing the level of poverty by increasing the capability, bargaining power and independence of micro business actors. Applications: This study can be useful for implementing poverty alleviation program and Islamic microfinance programs in rural areas. Novelty/Originality: The combined implementation of Grameen Bank model and Sen’s capability approach to analyze its success for poverty alleviation in rural areas.

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Kim, Kyung Hi. "Transformative educational actions for children in poverty: Sen's capability approach into practice in the Korean context." Education as Change 21, no. 1 (2017): 174–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1947-9417/2017/2338.

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Hatakka, Mathias, Annika Andersson, and Åke Grönlund. "Students’ use of one to one laptops: a capability approach analysis." Information Technology & People 26, no. 1 (March 15, 2013): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09593841311307169.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate effects of students’ 1:1 laptop use from a capability perspective by investigating increases and decreases of students’ opportunities and choices. The paper investigates changes that have taken place and how these changes enable or restrict students to do and be what they desire.Design/methodology/approachThe paper undertakes an interpretive case study based on group interviews and questionnaires. Sen's capability approach is used as theoretical framework and has informed the data collection and the analysis.Findings1:1 laptops in schools have provided students with new opportunities and choices, but also restricted others. An evident opportunity is the equalization of access to computers. Other opportunities relate to schoolwork efficiency and increased access to information. Gains also include the use of different media for overcoming disabilities or to fit individual learning styles. Regarding students’ well‐being, a “fun” learning environment is mentioned. However, the “fun” is often about playing games or using social media – something which diverts the students’ attention from the learning. Students also find that they are less social, too computer dependent, and that they miss using pen and paper. Additionally, health issues such as back problems and headaches are reported, as well as an increased risk of being robbed.Originality/valueMost research on 1:1 laptops in education focuses on easily quantifiable measures and reports from a teacher perspective. The paper takes a broader approach and investigates the impact 1:1 laptops have on students’ well‐being and agency.

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Robeyns, Ingrid. "Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction, SABINA ALKIRE. Oxford University Press, 2002, vii+340 pages." Economics and Philosophy 19, no. 2 (October 2003): 371–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267103231229.

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Breton, E., and W. Sherlaw. "Examining Tobacco Control Strategies and Aims Through a Social Justice Lens: An Application of Sen's Capability Approach." Public Health Ethics 4, no. 2 (June 23, 2011): 149–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/phe/phr022.

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Lanzi, Diego. "Gender Auditing e Approccio delle Capacitŕ: Teoria e Metodologia." ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, no. 5 (September 2009): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ep2008-005006.

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- In this paper we propose a model of Gender Auditing (GA) inspired by Amartya Sen's capability approach. The methodological and normative assumptions and features of the model are outlined in order to list the relevant dimensions of human development. Then, the paper proposes indicators and a simple variation of the Gender Empowerment Measure to evaluate the impact of public policies on gender issues of equal opportunities between men and women.JEL D63, I31, J16Keywords: Economia di Genere, Politiche Pubbliche, Capacitŕ, Well-being

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Gutwald, Rebecca, Ortrud Leßmann, Torsten Masson, and Felix Rauschmayer. "A Capability Approach to Intergenerational Justice? Examining the Potential of Amartya Sen's Ethics with Regard to Intergenerational Issues." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 15, no. 4 (April 23, 2014): 355–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2014.899563.

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Landorf, Hilary, Stephanie Doscher, and Tonette Rocco. "Education for sustainable human development: Towards a definition." Theory and Research in Education 6, no. 2 (July 2008): 221–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878508091114.

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Three years into the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, there has been considerable discussion regarding education for sustainable development (ESD) at a policy level, yet very few countries and communities have moved to integrate ESD into their educational curriculum. In this article we argue that the conceptualization and implementation of ESD can be advanced by grounding it in the human capability approach.We define education for sustainable human development as educational practice that results in the enhancement of human well-being, conceived in terms of the expansion of individuals' agency, capabilities and participation in democratic dialogue, both for now and for future generations.We conclude that incorporating Amartya Sen's human capability approach as the basis of ESD will provide the clarity of direction and purpose needed for the transformation of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.

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Kedir, Abbi Mamo. "Valuing freedom: Sen's capability approach and poverty reduction edited by SABINA ALKIRE. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 340)." Journal of International Development 15, no. 5 (2003): 665–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1012.

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Bonvin, Jean-Michel. "Activation Policies, New Modes of Governance and the Issue of Responsibility." Social Policy and Society 7, no. 3 (July 2008): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746408004338.

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Most activation policies are based on a simplistic conception of responsibility: behaving responsibly coincides with quickly reintegrating the labour market. Local welfare agents are called to push beneficiaries to actively endorse this goal. But the issue of responsibility is much more complex. Drawing on Sen's capability approach, this article suggests that responsibilisation of recipients requires both empowerment and granting them more real freedom of choice on the labour market. Against the present trend toward hypertrophying individual responsibility, it calls for a more equilibrated balance between individual and social responsibility. The objective is not to define an impracticable ideal of responsibility, but to provide a yardstick for assessing activation programmes.

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Nussbaum, Martha C. "Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 5 Adaptive preferences and women's options." Economics and Philosophy 17, no. 1 (April 2001): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267101000153.

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Any defense of universal norms involves drawing distinctions among the many things people actually desire. If it is to have any content at all, it will say that some objects of desire are more central than others for political purposes, more indispensable to a human being's quality of life. Any wise such approach will go even further, holding that some existing preferences are actually bad bases for social policy. The list of Central Human Capabilities that forms the core of my political project contains many functions that many people over the ages have preferred not to grant to women, either not at all, or not on a basis of equality. To insist on their centrality is thus to go against preferences that have considerable depth and breadth in traditions of male power. Moreover, the list contains many items that women over the ages have not wanted for themselves, and some that even today many women do not pursue – so in putting the list at the center of a normative political project aimed at providing the philosophical underpinning for basic political principles, we are going against not just other people's preferences about women, but, more controversially, against many preferences (or so it seems) of women about themselves and their lives. To some extent, my approach, like Sen's, avoids these problems of paternalism by insisting that the political goal is capability, not actual functioning, and by dwelling on the central importance of choice as a good. But the notion of choice and practical reason used in the list is a normative notion, emphasizing the critical activity of reason in a way that does not reflect the actual use of reason in many lives.

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Kinghorn, Philip, and Joanna Coast. "Assessing the capability to experience a 'good death': A qualitative study to directly elicit expert views on a new supportive care measure grounded in Sen's capability approach." PLOS ONE 13, no. 2 (February 21, 2018): e0193181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193181.

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이은아. "Philosophical Exploration of Ethical Grounds for Long-term Care Services: Centered on Rawls's Theory of Justice and Sen's Human Capability Approach." Korea Social Policy Review 15, no. 1 (July 2008): 129–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17000/kspr.15.1.200807.129.

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Anderson, Scott A. "Book ReviewsSabina. Alkire, Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xx+340. $70.00 (cloth)." Ethics 113, no. 3 (April 2003): 678–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/345642.

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Ohls, Carolina. "A Qualitative Study Exploring Matters of Ill-being and Well-being in Norwegian Activation Policy." Social Policy and Society 16, no. 4 (September 9, 2016): 593–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746416000397.

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This article is based on a qualitative study exploring reasons for ill-being and well-being among twenty participants in a Norwegian activation programme. The Qualification Programme aims to enhance participants’ overall life situations and employability by offering work training to long-term social assistance recipients, among other things. As an analytic framework for discussing ill-being and well-being, this article employs Amartya Sen's capability approach, which assesses the individual's ability to live a good life, and Martha Nussbaum's conceptualisation of that approach. The findings indicate that hardship was demonstrated in the respondents’ lives: participants could not cope financially and suffered from mental and physical health problems, while shame worsened their circumstances. However, participants also showed signs of enhanced well-being as they experienced increased individual agency. The study indicated a disparity between the intended and the actual direction of change in the lives of programme participants.

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Goldin, Jacqueline. "From vagueness to precision: raising the volume on social issues for the water sector." Water Policy 15, no. 2 (October 27, 2012): 309–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2012.211.

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The paper raises the volume on complex social issues that affect water management. The paper proposes Amartya Sen's capability approach (CA) as a suitable framework against which to consider these complex ideals. This is because the CA is attentive to issues of social justice and it addresses a range of intangible goods that contribute to human well-being which are critical if the gap between progressive ideas about water policy and their practical application is to be lessened. We isolate certain attributes within the CA and propose that these attributes are particularly relevant when considering ideas of social justice concerning water. We then conclude that a sharper focus on intangible social issues brings more precision to a water discourse that is all too often vague and fuzzy in its dealings with society.

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BREHENY, MARY, CHRISTINE STEPHENS, ANNETTE HENRICKSEN, BRENDAN STEVENSON, KRISTIE CARTER, and FIONA ALPASS. "Measuring living standards of older people using Sen's Capability Approach: development and validation of the LSCAPE-24 (Living Standards Capabilities for Elders) and LSCAPE-6." Ageing and Society 36, no. 2 (October 20, 2014): 307–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x14001160.

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ABSTRACTThe impact of disparities in socio-economic status on the health of older people is an important issue for policy makers in the context of population ageing. As older people live in different types of economic circumstances and because, as people age, their desires and needs are different to those of younger generations, measures of living standards need to be appropriate for older people. This paper reports on the validation of a measure of living standards for older people based on Sen's Capability Approach. Using this approach, living standards are conceptualised as varying from constraint to freedom rather than from hardship to comfort. Using the New Zealand Longitudinal Study of Ageing omnibus survey of 3,923 adults aged 50–87 years, the validity of the measure was assessed. The results indicate that this measure assesses what older people are able to achieve. In addition, this measure discriminates better at the higher end of the living standards spectrum than an existing measure that assesses living standards from hardship to comfort in terms of what people possess. From this, a short form of the measure has been developed which offers a conceptually based and valid measure useful for survey research with older people. This measure of living standards provides future avenues for improved understandings of socio-economic position in later life.

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Hamilton, Lawrence. "A Theory of True Interests in the Work of Amartya Sen." Government and Opposition 34, no. 4 (October 1999): 516–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00168.x.

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A distinction can be drawn within political philosophy between those theories which emphasize the procedural element of discussion in politics (exemplified in the work of J. Rawls and J. Habermas) and those that are concerned with the grounds people will bring up in support of their position. Within the latter type there are theories that work from wants/preferences (e.g. J. Bentham and some modern utilitarians), those that emphasize certain ideals (e.g. the Utopian Socialists), those that look to needs and their positive development (e.g. K. Marx), and those that use people's true interests (e.g. the Frankfurt School theorists and broad utilitarians like J. S. Mill and H. Sidgwick). This article has a twofold aim: to show how Sen's ‘capability approach’ incorporates a theory of true interests that goes beyond even more sophisticated existing theories of true interests; and to explain why Sen refrains from using the language of interests and needs. If his approach is reformulated in terms of needs and interests, certain political ramifications – structural and institutional changes – become unavoidable requirements for the realization of his goals. One possibility is that Sen does not discuss his innovative work in these terms because he is unwilling to condone some of these practical political ramifications.

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