What Can the Capabilities Approach Learn from an Ubuntu Ethic? A Relational Approach to Development Theory
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In Africa, individual wellbeing is not always promoted over community wellbeing; Ubuntu sees personal flourishing as embedded in interpersonal and community perspective, so the route to improving individuals' wellbeing comes through improving community wellbeing.
“However, in Africa this is not always the case.A study of the Igbo people of Nigeria by Agulanna (2010) concludes that the life of the individual only has meaning within the context of community.”
From A GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF WELLBEING FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY CONFLICT, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN UGANDA (2025) · cites this paper as Hoffmann & Metz, 2017
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- Authors
- Hoffmann, N., & Metz, T.
- Affiliations
- Rhodes University (ZA)
- University of Johannesburg (ZA)
- Venue
- World Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-09
- Volume
- 97
- Pages
- 153-164
- ISSN
- 0305-750X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2610530263
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 24.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- sro.sussex.ac.uk
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- World Development (publishedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › African cultural and philosophical studies
- Social Sciences › Development › Development, Ethics, and Society
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Keywords
- capability approach, Ubuntu ethics, relationality, eudaimonia, human well-being, functioning, African ethics, development theory, normative ethics, Global South
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