The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation: Concepts, Methods and Applications – eBook

This ebook The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation (PDF), explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce each other, helping to ensure that democratic principles are respected and become the foundation for sustainable human development. The Capability Approach provides guiding principles for protecting the transformative roots of participation (safeguarding accountability, ownership, and empowerment), while participation delivers vital methods for operationalizing the Capability Approach. Divided into three overlapping parts that focus on methods, concepts, and applications, this work draws on diverse fieldwork experiences to unpack power relations, address adaptive preferences, explore the individual and collective agency, consider new partnerships for development, and develop innovative concepts.

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