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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Biggeri, M
• Ballet, J
• Comim, F
• Professor Mario Biggeri
• Dr Jerome Ballet
• Dr Flavio Comim
• Ballet, Jérôme
• Comim, Flavio
• Biggeri, Mario

Titel

Children and the Capability Approach

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 This collection places children's issues at the centre of understandings of human development. Using Amartya Sen's 'Capability Approach', the contributors to this book draw on new tools and theoretical perspectives to understand the role of children in human development. Looking at a wide range of themes including child poverty, microfinance, disability, education, the built environment, the role of emotions and promoting children's active participation, this study furthers the capability approach as a key theoretical perpsective in understanding children and development. 19 02 First book to draw on the 'capability approach', developed by Amartya Sen, to examine children's issues Examines the developing and developed world including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America and Europe Focuses on key issues in children's lives including child labour, education, disability, poverty, gender, and relationships with adults 31 02 An innovative book exploring children's issues from a capability perspective 13 02 MARIO BIGGERI is Associate Professor in Development Economics at the University of Florence, Italy, and Director of the Masters in Advanced Development Economics. He is a Fellow of the Human Development Capability Association (HDCA) and co-ordinator of the thematic group on 'children's capabilities'.  JÉRÔME BALLET is Researcher at the the Insitut de recherche pour le développment, France. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Versailles, France, and is also Editor of the Ethics and Economics Review. FLAVIO COMIM is currently working for the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil co-ordinating its next National Human Development Report. He lectures on Human Development at the University of Cambridge, UK, and has published widely on the capability approach and the history of economic thought. 08 02 'This landmark book opens up children's capabilites as an entirely new field. Combining illuminating theoretical discussion and a wide range of interesting international case studies, the book establishes how we can do much more to recognise children in the conceptual vocabulary of the capability approach. It thus orients us towards better social research and practice with and for children.' - Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development, Institute of Education, #University of London, UK 04 02 List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Introduction: Theoretical Foundations and the Book's Roadmap; F.Comim, J.Ballet, M.Biggeri & V.Iervese Children's Agency and the Capability Approach: A Conceptual Framework; J.Ballet, M.Biggeri &  F.Comim Child Poverty as Capability Deprivation: How to Choose Domains of Child Well-Being and Poverty; M.Biggeri  & S.Mehrotra  PART II: UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S CAPABILITIES: METHODS AND CASE STUDIES From Valuing to Evaluating: Tools and Procedures to Operationalize the Capability Approach; M.Biggeri  & R.Libanora  Street Children in Kampala and NGOs' Action: Understanding Capabilities Deprivation and Expansion; R.Anich, M.Biggeri, R.Libanora  & S.Mariani Sen's Capability Approach: Children and Well-Being Explored through the use of Photography; A.Kellock  & R.Lawthom  Child Agency and Identity: The Case of Peruvian Children in a Transitional Situation; M.Horna Padrón  & J.Ballet Microfinance, Street Children and the Capability Approach: Is Microfinance an Appropriate Tool to Address the Street Children Issue?; B.Serrokh 'Good for Children?' Local Understandings versus Universal Prescriptions: Evidence from Three Ethiopian Communities;  L.Camfield  & Y.Tafere Children's Capabilities and Family Characteristics in Italy: Measuring Imagination and Play; T.Addabbo  & M.Di Tommaso PART III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS Re-Thinking Children's Disabilities Through the Capability Lens: A Framework for Analysis and Policy Implications; J.Trani, P.Bakhshi  & M.Biggeri Re-Thinking Access to Education Through the Capability Approach: The Case of Street Children; J.Ballet, A.Bhukuth  & K.Radja Re-Examining Children's Economic and Non-Economic Activities using the Capability Approach; M.Biggeri, A.Bhukuth  & J.Ballet  Children's Capabilities: Toward a Framework for Evaluating the Built Environment; J.Uhm, F.Lewis, & T.Banerjee PART IV: CONCLUSIONS Developing Children's Capabilities: The Role of Emotions and Parenting Style; F.Comim Final Remarks and Conclusions: The Promotion of Children's Active Participation; M.Biggeri, F.Comim  & J.Ballet    02 02 Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.