Human Development in Times of Crisis: Renegotiating Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9781137572127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 378 str.

Hans-Uwe Otto; Spyridon Pantazis; Holger Ziegler

Opis

This book examines human development in times of crisis, and its effect on social justice and democracy, with a focus on the delay in developmental progress caused by the 'Great Recession', the worst economic crisis in decades. The book places particular focus on policies of human development. It scrutinizes the philosophical foundations of human development while at the same time analyzing the underlying social, economic and institutional backgrounds which are conductive or limiting with respect of the task of politics of human development in times of crisis. Against this background, the project is concerned with the value added of applying the capabilities approach in order to assess the state and the policies of human development. This book connects demands for programmatic conceptions and social analyses in order to assess the opportunities for more capability-enhancing projects and public policies that aim to help counter the developmental setbacks from the economic crisis, and to enhance the quality of society and social justice.

Recenzje

"This is an interesting collection of essays that well reflects the multidisciplinarity of CA scholarship: the list of authors includes contributors from across the Social and Political Sciences, including Sociology, Philosophy, Economics, Development Studies, Education Studies, Social Policy, Political Economy, and Childhood Studies. This, along with the combination of empirical and conceptual pieces, means that there is something for everyone in this book." (Annie Austin, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 19 (3), 2018)

Spis treści

1. Introduction. Capabilities and Society: Renegotiating Social Justice in Times of Crisis

Hans-Uwe Otto, Holger Ziegler, Spyridon Pantazis, Antoanneta Potsi

Part I: Evaluating public policy – Capability Perspectives

2. The ambivalence of social policies and the challenge of Human Development: A proposal for assessing their impact against the capability approach

Jean-Michel Bonvin

3. Corrosive disadvantages and intersectionality: empirical evidence on multidimensional inequality accross youth in Europe

Alberta Spreafico, Agnese Peruzzi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti

4. Capabilities and working lives 

Benedicte Zimmermann

Part II: Education and life situations of young people

5. Children’s rights in times of austerity

Zoe Clark

6. Children’s well-being in times of crisis in PIIGS countries: the Capability Approach as a multidimensional approach to deprivation

Antoanneta Potsi, Antonella D’Agostino, Caterina Giusti

7. Capabilities as the informational basis for gender equality policy in higher education

Melanie Walker, Sonja Loots

8. The University and sustainable human development

Des Gasper

Part III: Conceptual Concerns of Human Development

9. A brief history of liberty and its lessons

Philip Pettit

10. Some reflections on capability and the Republican Freedom as a response to Philip Pettit’s Address on the Martha Nussbaum Symposium

Mozaffar Qizilbash

11. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-Ranking

Martha Nussbaum

Part IV: Policies of and Challenges to Human Development in Times of Crisis

12. Inclusive Human Progress: from structural vulnerabilities to social cohesion

Astra Bonini

13. Confronting Inequality and Corruption: Agency, Empowerment, and Democratic Development

David Crocker

14. Public choice and the CA: Self-interest, altruisme and their consequences for sustainable development groups

Jürgen Volkert and  Raimund Krumm

15. Innovation and Justice: contributions of the capabilities approach to a 21st century, transformative perspective on innovation 

Rafael Ziegler

16. The capabilities approach, the environment and relational values. Why we should conceive of the environment as co-constituents of capabilities

Antje Brock

O autorze

Hans-Uwe Otto is Professor of Educational Science at Bielefeld University, Germany, Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Director of the Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability Research, Germany. 

Spyros Pantazis is Professor Emeritus of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He was scientific director for academic upgrading programs and vocational training for Greece and Albania. He is Project Manager for VERSO - Volunteers for European Employment project.

Holger Ziegler is Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science and a Member of the Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability Research. He has run several international 'Social Work & Society' Academy - TiSSA conferences.

Antoanneta Potsi is Research Fellow at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and was Conference Manager of the 2014 HDCA Conference.