Capability-Promoting Policies : : Enhancing Individual and Social Development / / ed. by Hans-Uwe Otto, Melanie Walker, Holger Ziegler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Acconcia, Giuseppe,; Ballon, Paola,; Bessell, Sharon,; Bornemann-Martínez, Guillermo,; Caldentey, Pedro,; Chiappero-Martinetti, Enrica,; Conradie, Ina,; Deneulin, Séverine,; Featherstone, Brid,; Felder, Franziska,; Gotoh, Reiko,; Graziano, Paolo R.,; Gupta, Anna,; Kjeldsen, Christian Christrup,; Klein, Elise,; Lépore, Eduardo,; Mahendravada, Indira,; Mitchell, Ann,; Morales-Fernández, Emilio J.,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Potsi, Antoanneta,; Rambla, Xavier,; Seifert, Susan C.,; Stern, Mark J.,; Suárez, Ana Lourdes,; Walker, Melanie,; Ziegler, Holger,
• HerausgeberIn: Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Walker, Melanie,; Ziegler, Holger,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 12 Black and White

How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and systematic strategies for human development policies at the local, national and international level. International contributors innovatively combine the hitherto unpaired perspectives of the capability approach and the tradition of critical social policy with empirical examples using case studies from South-Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. The result is a call for a new, feasible approach towards more socially balanced, democratic and innovative capability-promoting policy activities, models and programmes that reduce social and human suffering to promote an enhanced social quality of current societies around the world.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Human development, capabilities and the ethics of policy -- Conceptual challenges -- What political liberalism and the welfare state left behind: chance and gratitude -- The capability approach, agency and sustainable development -- Public policy: from welfare to empowerment of women in India -- The contribution to human development of social policies in the Central American Integration System -- Modalities of structure and civil society -- A framework for urban integration: the case of Buenos Aires -- Culture, equity and social wellbeing in New York City -- The third sector and capability-promoting policies -- Informal workers and human development in South Africa -- Children, youth and education -- The capability approach: what can it offer child protection policy and practice in England? -- The capability approach and a child standpoint -- Capabilities and the challenge to inclusive schooling -- Early childhood educational curricula: implications of the capability approach -- Education for all? Providing capabilities for young people with special needs -- The instrumental values of education in the Southern Cone -- Conclusion -- What is to be done about capabilitypromoting policies? -- Index