Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach
The "capability approach" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the cons
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Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach
TRANSFORMING UN UST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach
LIBRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 19
Managing Editor: Govert A. den Hartogh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach edited by
SÉVERINE DENEULIN St Edmund s College, Cambridge, U.K.
MATHIAS NEBEL Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City and
NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY Liverpool Hope University, U.K.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach
1
Séverine Deneulin, Mathias Nebel and Nicholas Sagovsky
Part I Chapter 1
The Capability Approach: Theoretical Discussion Capabilities and Rights
17
Paul Ricoeur Chapter 2
“Necessary Thickening”: Ricoeur’s Ethic of Justice as a Complement to Sen’s Capability Approach
27
Séverine Deneulin Chapter 3
Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen’s Writings
47
Sabina Alkire Chapter 4
“Capable Individuals” and Just Institutions: Sen and Rawls
63
Nicholas Sagovsky Chapter 5
Justice for Women: Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching
83
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Part II Transforming Unjust Structures: Five Case Studies Chapter 6
Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in the Search for Justice
105
Teresa Godwin Phelps Chapter 7
Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors
121
Jean-Michel Bonvin and Nicolas Farvaque Chapter 8
Enhancing Students’ Capabilities?: UK Higher Education and the Widening Participation Agenda Michael Watts and David Bridges
143
Chapter 9
Enter the Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity and the Capability of Human Flourishing
161
Vincent D. Rougeau Chapter 10
“Patent Injustice”: Applying Sen’s Capability Approach to Biotechnologies Julie Clague
177
INTRODUCTION
SÉVERINE DENEULIN, MATHIAS NEBEL AND NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY
TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach
THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Structural injustice has traditionally been the concern of two major academic disciplines: economics and philosophy. The dominant model of economics has long been tha
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