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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

By
Sabina Alkire ,
Mozaffar Qizilbash  and
Flavio Comim
Edited by
Flavio Comim ,
Mozaffar Qizilbash  and
Sabina Alkire
Sabina Alkire
Affiliation:
Director Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative University of Oxford
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Affiliation:
Professor of Politics Economics and Philosophy University of York
Flavio Comim
Affiliation:
Director Capability and Sustainability Centre; Fellow of St Edmund's College University of Cambridge; Fellow of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
Flavio Comim
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Affiliation:
University of York
Sabina Alkire
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Amartya Sen's capability approach has generated remarkable interest in recent years. This volume brings together a selection of papers initially presented at an international conference on the capability approach (CA) held at St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2001. This conference marked an important turning point in research on the capability approach. It brought together many young scholars who were interested in the approach as well as others who had been working on it for some time. The conference was initially motivated by issues relating to the usefulness of the approach in the particular contexts of poverty and injustice. However, conference papers covered a wide range of topics relating to concepts, measurement and other applications. In this volume, the papers are categorised in terms of these broad and overlapping areas. In 2002 a follow-up conference explored Martha Nussbaum's version of the approach, and annual conferences have been held in subsequent years. Numerous initiatives have since emerged, including the Human Development and Capability Association (www.hd-ca.org). In part as a result of these initiatives, but also quite independently of them, a large literature on the capability approach has emerged.

Amartya Sen's 1980 Tanner lecture, ‘Equality of What?’, set out a broad agenda for debate and further research. While the approach has been extensively discussed, Sabina Alkire suggests in Chapter 1 that work in this area is still at a relatively early stage.

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Print publication year: 2008

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  • Introduction
    • By Sabina Alkire, Director Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative University of Oxford, Mozaffar Qizilbash, Professor of Politics Economics and Philosophy University of York, Flavio Comim, Director Capability and Sustainability Centre; Fellow of St Edmund's College University of Cambridge; Fellow of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
  • Edited by Flavio Comim, University of Cambridge, Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford
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  • Edited by Flavio Comim, University of Cambridge, Mozaffar Qizilbash, University of York, Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford
  • Book: The Capability Approach
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511492587.001
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