The Coercive Side of Collective Capabilities: Evidence from the Bolivian<i>Altiplano</i>

Godfrey-Wood, Rachel; Mamani-Vargas, Graciela

doi:10.1080/19452829.2016.1199169

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“…It is worth pointing out that most of these documents do not deny the opportunity of the concept of human flourishing; rather, they are trying to improve, nuance, or extend some of its uses and meanings. Meanwhile, there are also a few works that specifically reject such criticisms as not appropriate, for example, Godfrey-Wood and Mamani-Vargas [ 53 ], who explore the relationship between collective and individual capabilities, or Skorupski [ 54 ], who justifies the social concern with individuals’ good.…”

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The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing

Loureda

Tamés-Muñoz

Hernández-Baqueiro

2022

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Human flourishing is a thriving concept, whose use has greatly increased among academic researchers from a variety of fields, from the arts and humanities and psychology to the social and environmental sciences and economics. To better understand the concept’s success, this work proposes a bibliometric review, in which statistical methods and data mining were used to analyze 1829 documents, chosen from the Scopus database by searching the term “human flourishing”. Through cluster and network analyses, the study shows the concept’s evolution and composition, as well as its current tensions and trends, in which the predominantly psychological approach is being compensated with social concerns and the search for justice. Furthermore, the concept’s strong philosophical roots provide it with abstract richness and great fertility, which can be seen in keywords, such as virtue or eudaimonia. This bibliometric review proved to be useful for this type of study, despite the limitations imposed by the characteristics of the Scopus database itself.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing

Loureda

Tamés-Muñoz

Hernández-Baqueiro

2022

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“…These authors argue that the problem arises when the strength of the institution to contribute to collective goals frequently depends on its ability to use coercive instruments to override individual freedom. Based on their study of communities in the Bolivian Altiplano (which examines the patriarchal aspects of peasant life), they posit that ‘in order to operate effectively, social institutions need to constrain the individual freedoms of their members […] it is clear that valuable collective capabilities do not come for free’ (Godfrey‐Wood & Mamani‐Vargas, 2017, p. 85). They also make a very interesting distinction between ‘those practices which have coercive elements but which are essential to the generation of valuable collective capabilities, and those which are non‐essential and are more likely to generate non‐valuable ones’ 7 .…”

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“…I consider this to be an appropriate distinction, in that they are not necessarily justifying the first kind of constraint either. Rather, they consider that ‘they are structurally necessary for valuable collective action to be undertaken’ (Godfrey‐Wood & Mamani‐Vargas, 2017, p. 85).…”

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Education as a common good from the capability approach

Calandín

Tamarit-López

2021

Journal of Philosophy of Education

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The capability approach is a very fruitful framework for thinking about and assessing the human development of societies. Our purpose in this paper is to analyse whether the capability approach is a suitable way to illuminate education as a common good and how education must be understood as a common good. For this purpose, it is important to first consider the criticism that the capability approach is excessively individualistic. Rather than dwelling on the concept of ‘collective capability’, we will explore the extent to which the capability approach enables us to understand the concept of the ‘common good’ of education not in non‐collectivist terms but in terms of human development of individuals and communities as custodians of humanity.

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“…characteristics that are needed by the individual to express her full potential at work, are shaped by institutional context. Many critiques have been formulated against the too individualistic perspective in which the capability approach has been developed (Robeyns, 2005; Godfrey-Wood and Mamani-Vargas, 2017), with few considerations of “the embeddedness of economic action in social and political relations and structures” (Leβmann, 2022). Most suggestions to overcome this problem relate to the concept of collective capabilities, including the institutional level (Ibrahim, 2017).…”

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How does institutional context shape work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers? A contextualised application of the capability approach to Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Focacci

Pichault

2023

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PurposeAccording to Sen's theoretical framework of capability (1985), individuals reach their full potential once they have the freedom, intended as the set of functionings at their disposal, to do so. However, many critiques have been developed against the lack of embeddedness of the capability approach in social and political relations and structures. In this article, the authors investigate the influence of three institutional contexts (Belgium, the Netherlands and France) on the respective work-related functionings of self-employed and regular workers, with a focus on human capital investment and institutional support offered to them.Design/methodology/approachData from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) are used to highlight similarities and differences in building work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers. A regression analysis is provided at the country level.FindingsIn the three labour markets, the authors find that the building of work-related functionings is more successful for regular employees, especially as regards institutional support. Self-employed workers, on the other hand, need to rely on their individual capability as regards employment protection and human capital investment. However, the authors find interesting differences between the three institutional contexts. In both Belgium and France, self-employed workers are subject to higher instability in terms of changes in salary and hours worked, whereas atypical work is better positioned in the Dutch labour market. The Netherlands is also characterised by a less significant gap between regular and self-employed workers with respect to participation in training.Originality/valueIn this article, the authors contextualise Sen's (1985) theoretical framework by taking into account the institutional differences of labour markets. In particular, the authors provide a novel application of his capability approach to regular and self-employed workers in an economically relevant European area.

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The Coercive Side of Collective Capabilities: Evidence from the BolivianAltiplano

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing

The Fertility of a Concept: A Bibliometric Review of Human Flourishing

Education as a common good from the capability approach

How does institutional context shape work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers? A contextualised application of the capability approach to Belgium, France and the Netherlands

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