Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-72023-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 314 g

Reihe: The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates

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 socialism 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 promising ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world.

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.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deneulin, Severine

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Development and ethics 2. Living well: Wellbeing and agency 3. Acting justly: Relations and responsibility 4. Assessing and transforming social realities 5. The forming and speaking of the language Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Séverine Deneulin is Senior Lecturer in International Development, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK