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  • Integral Human Development

    Catholic Social Teaching and the Capability Approach

    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    This volume brings into conversation two major moral traditions in the social sciences and humanities that offer common areas for understanding, interpreting, and transforming the world.Over the last decade, moral theologians who work on issues of poverty, social justice, human rights, and political institutions have been finding inspiration in the capability approach (CA). Conversely, social ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Religion in Development

    Rewriting the Secular Script

    Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in the evolution of development thought, how it has been conceptualised in the social sciences, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics

    Series series The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates
    The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Capability-Promoting Policies

    Enhancing Individual and Social Development

    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 ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach

    Freedom and Agency

    Aimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include the conceptualisation and measurement of well ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition

    Towards an Integral Ecology

    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with a religious tradition in order to construct a new, transdisciplinary vision of development with integral ecology at its heart.It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development, on the one hand, and on the works of economist and philosopher Amartya Sen which underpin the human development ... Read more

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    Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant

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    Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursing’s Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others. It is about the relationship—the social contract—between the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations. This arrangement authorizes nurses as professionals to meet the needs involved in the care, and health of patients and clients and the health ... Read more

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  • Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors: Women, Work, and the Global Economy

    Drawing on Catholic social thought, social science, and gender studies, the lecture builds on data concerning women’s market and household work to argue that twenty-first-century economies must pursue, as their overriding aim, sustainable sufficiency for every household and for the “world house.” ... Read more

    $8.68 USD

  • Indaba!

    A Way of Listening, Engaging, and Understanding across the Anglican Communion

    Indaba! depicts the adventures and challenges of participants who explored mutual listening and understanding across the worldwide Anglican Communion through the innovative Continuing Indaba project. Indaba is an African Zulu cultural process for engaging differences of view on a shared concern. Introduced to the Anglican Communion for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, it has been adapted and used as a ... Read more

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  • Proleptic Leadership on the Commons

    Ushering in a New Global Order

    Capitalism is in crisis and, according to some, on the verge of collapse. Will this dying system give way to a commons-centric society as many scholars and activists predict? Will leadership become an antedated function, no longer needed in the self-organized, collaborative commons?These questions inspired the author of Proleptic Leadership on the Commons: Ushering in a New Global Order to explore ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Capabilities, Gender, Equality

    Towards Fundamental Entitlements

    Questions of gender, injustice and equality pervade all our lives, and as such, the capabilities or 'human development' approach to understanding well-being and basic political entitlements continues to be debated. In this thought-provoking book, a range of authors provide unique reflections on the capabilities approach and, specifically, Martha C. Nussbaum's contributions to issues of gender, ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Unconscious Civilization

    From the author of Voltaire's Bastards comes a philosophical examination of how corporatism has become so deeply ingrained into our society, how it's destroying democracy, and how we can fight against it.In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD