POLS 3560 Lecture Notes - The Human Face, Capability Approach, Ananya (Actress)
26 Mar 2014
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Pols 3560 fall/winter 2011/2012 ananya mukherjee-reed. Lecture 7 modernization, human development nov 1. Recap #1 criteria for assessing a develop theory/approach. There were: justice; difference; agency, note: justice as redistribution versus, justice as removing oppression (metaphor of the cage). Recap #2 two approaches to development modernization; human development as capability. Assumes the superiority" of the western model. Who has a voice in determining how development happens?) The three approaches at a glance: hd as enhancement of capability, hd as protection of the most vulnerable, hd as changes in the matrix of social power. The capability approach: main distributive, as associated with capitalism, with minimal liberal regulations, so as to give individuals better access and rights. The capability approach: the goal is to develop individual agency; in the interim, the state and international institutions are to be the agents which create conditions for the development of individual agency.
