Creating Capabilities

Capacidades socio-estatales para la democracia local en contextos de violencia en Colombia y México

“…El enfoque de las capacidades desarrollado por Amartya Sen y Martha Nussbaum ha tenido una amplia recepción y debate académico, como propuesta alternativa a los modelos utilitaristas del desarrollo, al considerar los criterios de justicia como base angular de cualquier proyecto de sociedad (Sen, 2009;Nussbaum, 2006). Desde esta propuesta, todas las personas son fines en sí mismos y la sociedad debe garantizar las oportunidades para que todos gocen de la libertad necesaria para 'ser o hacer aquello que valoran' (Sen, 1999, p. 75;Nussbaum, 2011, p. 38).…”

Understanding Energy Poverty, Vulnerability and Justice

“…As such, the fulfilment of energy needs is a crucial component of the functionings that enable individuals to perform their everyday life and achieve well-being (Nussbaum, 2011;Saith, 2001;Sen, 2009). But needs are themselves closely conditioned by the social practices that inform the social expectations and settings in which energy use takes place.…”

The Role of States in Controlling the Obesity Epidemic, and a Personal Autonomy to Decide

“…In addition to the essential knowledge of justice built by Rawls, Dworkin, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, the Brazilian university professor builds an inclusive, comprehensive bioethical framework and covers current issues that had not been addressed by the earlier theories. In this sense, obesity is not analysed simply as an objective issue, defined by numbers and limits as usual, such as Dworkin and Rawls might have suggested, and not as a free individual choice, as it might be understood by the view of Amarthya Sen or Nussbaum, but as an empirical and individual choice regarding the own body and its image, which would be based on the values and functionings of each individual, using the personal functional systems that each person has built for him/herself [44]- [49].…”