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

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This book 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 ownership, accountability and empowerment), while participation delivers vital methods for making the Capability Approach operational. Divided into three overlapping parts that focus on concepts, methods and applications, this work draws on diverse fieldwork experiences to unpack power relations, address adaptive preferences, explore individual and collective agency, consider new partnerships for development, and develop innovative concepts. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Human Development and the Capability Approach: The Role of Empowerment and Participation (Alexandre Apsan Frediani, David Alexander Clark, Mario Biggeri)....Pages 3-36 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 The Practice of Participation and the Capability Approach (John Hammock)....Pages 39-54 Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen’s Capability Approach (Pepi Patrón)....Pages 55-74 Balancing Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will: Some Reflections on the Capability Approach, Gender, Empowerment, and Education (Elaine Unterhalter)....Pages 75-99 Notions of Empowerment and Participation: Contributions from and to the Capability Approach (Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Jordi Peris, Alejandra Boni)....Pages 101-124 Process and Outcomes: Participation and Empowerment in a Multidimensional Poverty Framework (Shailaja Fennell)....Pages 125-154 Front Matter ....Pages 155-155 Participatory Development: A Sustainable Approach for Reducing Inequality and Fighting Poverty? The Example of Disability Policies in Afghanistan (Parul Bakhshi, Jean-François Trani)....Pages 157-191 Children and Youth Participation in Decision-Making and Research Processes (Mario Biggeri, Caterina Arciprete, Ravi Karkara)....Pages 193-221 The Integrated Capabilities Framework: Exploring Multiculturalism and Human Well-Being in Participatory Settings (David Alexander Clark, Susan Hodgett)....Pages 223-260 Participatory Research Methods and the Capability Approach: Researching the Housing Dimensions of Squatter Upgrading Initiatives in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (Alexandre Apsan Frediani)....Pages 261-288 Participatory Monitoring of Development Projects in the South Pacific (John Schischka)....Pages 289-310 Planning and Managing for Human Development: What Contribution Can the Capability Approach Make? (Gabriel Ferrero y De Loma-Osorio, Carlos Zepeda)....Pages 311-338 Emancipatory Research as Empowerment: An Illustration from a Research Study of Persons with Disabilities in Palestine (Mario Biggeri, Federico Ciani)....Pages 339-359 Front Matter ....Pages 361-361 Capability Development and Decentralization (Santosh Mehrotra)....Pages 363-383 Participation, Empowerment and Capabilities: Key Lessons and Future Challenges (David Alexander Clark, Mario Biggeri, Alexandre Apsan Frediani)....Pages 385-402 Back Matter ....Pages 403-428