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- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: social choice, agency, inclusiveness and capabilities
- Part I Social Choice and Capabilities
- Part II Inclusiveness, Social and Individual Agency
- Part III Social Choice and Capabilities in Action
- 14 Measuring the independence of ‘dependent’ persons based on the capability approach
- 15 Indigenous challenges to the capability approach
- 16 Situating the family within the capabilities framework: a collective conversion factor
- 17 An ethical perspective on the United Kingdom’s Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability
- 18 Public services as conversion factors
- Index
- References
15 - Indigenous challenges to the capability approach
A relational ontology of community and sustainability
from Part III - Social Choice and Capabilities in Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: social choice, agency, inclusiveness and capabilities
- Part I Social Choice and Capabilities
- Part II Inclusiveness, Social and Individual Agency
- Part III Social Choice and Capabilities in Action
- 14 Measuring the independence of ‘dependent’ persons based on the capability approach
- 15 Indigenous challenges to the capability approach
- 16 Situating the family within the capabilities framework: a collective conversion factor
- 17 An ethical perspective on the United Kingdom’s Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability
- 18 Public services as conversion factors
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter offers a rereading of Amartya Sen’s capability approach (CA) from the perspective of the Andean region that highlights their differences. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the engagement of the CA with indigenous philosophies, and to use the latter’s insights to push the former’s boundaries. In particular, the authors discuss the differences between the relational ontology that underpins the BV framework with the dualistic ontology upon which Sen’s CA is built. While Sen’s ethical considerations in development remain of paramount importance for contemporary thinking and practice, the focus on individual freedom within the CA is embedded within a dualistic ontology that separates humans from nature and individuals from their societies. A consideration of the challenges associated with the BV framework allows the authors to address some of the most contentious areas within the CA literature: those relating to collective capabilities and sustainability issues.
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- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities , pp. 323 - 355Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024