Overview
- Offers theoretical and practical solutions for safeguarding the transformative roots of participation and facilitating empowerment
- Reflects on local and global partnerships for sustainable human development
- Expands on key concepts in the literature including freedom, agency and empowered learning
Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development series (RID)
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This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce each other helping to ensure that democratic principles are respected and become the foundation for sustainable human development. The Capability Approach provides guiding principles for protecting the transformative roots of participation (safeguarding ownership, accountability and empowerment), while participation delivers vital methods for making the Capability Approach operational. Divided into three overlapping parts that focus on concepts, methods and applications, this work draws on diverse fieldwork experiences to unpack power relations, address adaptive preferences, explore individual and collective agency, consider new partnerships for development, and develop innovative concepts.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Conceptual Foundations
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Applications and Methods
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Conclusions and Policy Lessons
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Alexander Clark is Affiliated Lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Mario Biggeri is Associate Professor in Development Economics at the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Florence, Italy.
Alexandre Apsan Frediani is Associate Professor in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Methods and Applications
Editors: David Alexander Clark, Mario Biggeri, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Series Title: Rethinking International Development series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35230-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35229-3Published: 27 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67491-6Due: 13 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35230-9Published: 15 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2231
Series E-ISSN: 2946-224X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 428
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Aid, International Political Economy, Development Policy, Development Theory