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The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
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Journal of Human Development and CapabilitiesAmartya Sen (b.1933) has been a beacon of common sense in the interdisciplinary terrain he occupies. His work on entitlements and capability stress human agency rather more than constraint, and they carry ‘some sense of worth and of real people's lives’ (Gasper, 2000: 996).
Batterbury, Simon, Fernando, Jude L.
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Teaching Race in a Divisive Political Context: Conceptual Engineering for Educational Practice
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Recent years have witnessed intensified political controversies surrounding the teaching of race in educational contexts, manifesting in curricular restrictions and opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. This article employs conceptual engineering, building on Sally Haslanger's influential framework, to propose a process ...
Winston C. Thompson
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Amartya Sen o prawach człowieka [Sen on human rights] [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2014 The article discusses the idea of ‘human rights’ and the Amartya Sen’s reflections on that topic. By assumption, Sen does not present a catalogue of human rights, yet he claims that the language of human rights can be used to talk about the so-called ...
Katarzyna Guczalska
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Mothers' strategies to reconcile roles and responsibilities during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Family Relations, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Theoretically guided by the capability approach, this study examines how mothers reconciled work and care responsibilities throughout the pandemic. Background The COVID‐19 pandemic placed heavy demands on mothers and limited their agency freedom.
Vera Dafert, Ulrike Zartler
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Justice and Democracy in Amartya Sen
Politikon, 2013 The present paper aims at delivering a critical view of the links between justice and democracy as set by Amartya Sen’s paramount work on these themes, “The Idea of Justice”, by considering the constitutional and political experience of India. A central
Antonio Puggioni
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Inequality of Opportunity in a Multiperiod Framework
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a simple model to evaluate and measure inequality of opportunity in a multiperiod framework, in which both circumstances and effort may change over time. We adopt a norm‐based approach and an axiomatic methodology: we first characterise two alternative definitions of a ‘fair distribution’, associated respectively with the ex ...
Domenico Moramarco +2 more
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Belleten, 2013 Hindistanlı bir iktisatçı olan Amartya Sen'in eserleri değişik zamanlara ve mekanlara nüfûzu açısından dikkate değerdir. İktisadî kalkınma hakkındaki yazılarında Amartya Sen, sık sık imparator Ashoka ve Ekber Şah gibi Hindistan ...
Fatih Bayram
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
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