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Human Rights and Capabilities

Sen, Amartya·2005·Journal of Human Development

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The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as rights to particular capabilities. However, human rights to important process freedoms cannot be adequately analysed within the capability framework. Furthermore, both human rights and capabilities have to depend on the process of public reasoning. The methodology of public scrutiny draws on Rawlsian understanding of ‘objectivity’ in ethics, but the impartiality that is needed cannot be confined within the borders of a nation. Public reasoning without territorial confinement is important for both.

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“We draw on the capabilities framework (Sen, 2005, 2009) to theorise the way that practitioners are enabled or constrained in integrating practice elements and the way the conditions for these emerge from unequal patterns of practices characterising the everyday lives of those who experience…”
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The agency of fertility plans
Bazzani, G., & Vignoli, D. (2022) · Frontiers in Sociology · doi:10.3389/fsoc.2022.923756 · Cited by 11
“Recent developments have translated into a more sociological formulation of Sen’s conversion factors that convert resources into agency achievement Sen (1999, 2005, 2008), considering the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis, as well as feedback processes (Hvinden and Halvorsen, 2018;…”
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A firm-level perspective on windows of opportunity
Davy, E., & Hansen, U. E. (2023) · Technology in Society · doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102374 · Cited by 10
Filling the gap: a learning network for health an human rights in the Western Cape, South Africa.
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Análisis espacial de la pobreza en Antioquia, Colombia
Santa, G. M., & López, J. G. V. (2014) · Equidad y Desarrollo · doi:10.19052/ed.2366 · Cited by 10
Capabilities and Universalism – An Empirical Examination: The Case of the Ultra-Orthodox Community
Malovicki-Yaffe, N. (2019) · Journal of Human Development and Capabilities · doi:10.1080/19452829.2019.1705259 · Cited by 11
“As he writes, the “problem is not with listing important capabilities, but with insisting on one pre-determined canonical list of capabilities, chosen by theorists without any general social discussion or public reasoning” (Sen 2005, 158).”
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Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene
Shockley, K. (2020) · Journal of Social Philosophy · doi:10.1111/josp.12376 · Cited by 11
A Basic Right Denied: The Interplay Between Various Factors Contributing to School Dropouts in Pakistan
Abid, S., Ali, S. M., & Ali, I. (2021) · Frontiers in Education · doi:10.3389/feduc.2021.682579 · Cited by 10
The “Ambassadorial” Journalist: Twitter as a Performative Platform for Ultra-Orthodox Journalists during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shomron, B. (2022) · Contemporary Jewry · doi:10.1007/s12397-022-09436-z · Cited by 10
“Capabilities refer to what people can do or be (Sen 2005), and the most important of the capabilities is “to be secure,” as it serves as the most basic human need to exist safely without threat (Nussbaum 2011).”
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The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): a new approach for measuring human potential and wellbeing
Halfon, N., Chandra, A., Cannon, J. S., Gardner, W. P., & Forrest, C. B. (2022) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14030-x · Cited by 10
“Sen A. Human rights and capabilities.”
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The underlying coherent behavior in intraday dynamic market equilibrium
Shi, L., Guo, X., Fenu, A., & Wang, B.-H. (2023) · China Finance Review International · doi:10.1108/cfri-08-2022-0149 · Cited by 11
Becoming a Teacher: The Liminal Identities and Political Agency of Refugee Teachers
Özmantar, Z. K., Cin, F. M., & Mkwananzi, F. (2023) · Journal of Human Development and Capabilities · doi:10.1080/19452829.2023.2227108 · Cited by 10
“In this research, we employ capabilities by drawing on two concepts – identity (Sen 2005) and relationality (Dejaeghere 2020) – as the basis and intersecting factors shaping teachers’ professional capabilities and to understand the contexts in which these teachers feel powerful and powerless because of being situated…”
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“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women
Shahar, R. N.-B., Marciano, A., & Schejter, A. M. (2023) · The Information Society · doi:10.1080/01972243.2023.2226121 · Cited by 10
Integrating Social Justice for Health Professional Education: Self-reflection, Advocacy, and Collaborative Learning
Hatchett, L., Elster, N. R., Wasson, K., Anderson, L., & Parsi, K. P. (2015) · Journal of Health Ethics · doi:10.18785/ojhe.1101.04 · Cited by 10
Yoksullukla Mücadeleye İnsan Hakları Açısından Bakmak: Amartya Sen’in Kapasite (Capability) Yaklaşımı Temelinde Bir Değerlendirme / Approaching To Struggle Against Poverty From The Point Of View Of Human Rights
Metin, B. (2015) · Journal of Yaşar University · doi:10.19168/jyu.95827 · Cited by 10
Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: The Case of Housing
Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D., & Heintz, J. (2011) · Journal of Human Development and Capabilities · doi:10.1080/19452829.2011.541797 · Cited by 10
“This is part of the ‘naming and shaming’ process to which Sen (2005) refers.”
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Measuring and Valuing Outcomes for Care at the End of Life: The Capability Approach
Coast, J., Bailey, C., Canaway, A., & Kinghorn, P. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28267-1_7 · Cited by 10
Freeing the ‘Aboriginal Individual’: Deconstructing ‘Development as Freedom’ in Remote Indigenous Australia
Bulloch, H. C. M., & Fogarty, W. (2016) · Social Analysis · doi:10.3167/sa.2016.600305 · Cited by 13
Evaluating irreversible social harms
Pols, A. J. K., & Romijn, H. (2017) · Policy Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11077-017-9277-1 · Cited by 10
Child Protection and Social Inequality: Understanding Child Prostitution in Malawi
Nkhoma, P., & Charnley, H. (2018) · Social Sciences · doi:10.3390/socsci7100185 · Cited by 10
The View from the Farm: Gendered Contradictions of the Measurement Imperative in Global Goals
Piñán, A. V. P., & Vibert, E. (2019) · Journal of Human Development and Capabilities · doi:10.1080/19452829.2019.1659237 · Cited by 10
“Capabilities foster ‘the opportunity to achieve valuable combinations of human functionings—what a person is able to do or be’; the substantive freedoms to live the kind of life one values (Sen 2005).”
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Authors: Sen, A.
Corresponding author: Sen, Amartya
ORCID: Sen, Amartya
Venue: Journal of Human Development
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2005-07
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Pages: 151-166
ISSN: 1464-9888 (ISSN-L)
1469-9516
DOI: 10.1080/14649880500120491
OpenAlex: W2096196718
Semantic Scholar: 311a84649880fb6eb22f842a46b1f98bee415a2a
Cited by: 1,966
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 83 · 2025: 113 · 2024: 147 · 2023: 131 · 2022: 158 · 2021: 157 · 2020: 187 · 2019: 142 · 2018: 132 · 2017: 110 · 2016: 107 · 2015: 85 · 2014: 95 · 2013: 90 · 2012: 53
FWCI: 103.73
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Human Development (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Università degli Studi di Pavia
Topics: Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Human Rights and Development
Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
Keywords: human rights, capability approach, John Rawls, public reasoning, impartial spectator

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