Séverine Deneulin
Biographic Data
| ID | 171954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Séverine Deneulin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Séverine |
| FAMILY NAME | Deneulin |
| SIGNATURE | DENEULIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5533-6164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social equity and care for the earth: Tensions and synergies in Latin America
Pursuing greater social equity in balance with ecosystems is one of today’s greatest challenges. Little is known about the conditions which might facilitate these objectives finding synergy. The purpose of this special issue is to understand the conditions under which concerns for social equity and care for the earth can be addressed jointly at a micro-territorial level. This introduction discusses the Latin American landscape against which the r…
Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition: Towards an Integral Ecology
Anthropological visions
Religion and development: Integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod
‘Religion and development’ is now a well-established research area within development studies. However, reflections on development from within the standpoint of religions remain largely unexplored. Interrogating processes of social change from a certain moral standpoint – whether some are more desirable or worthwhile than others – has been a defining characteristic of development studies throughout its history. The paper argues that, given these …
Education for just transitions: Lifelong learning and the 30th anniversary Human Development Report
The 30th anniversary Human Development Report, entitled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, was released by the United Nations Development Programme in December 2020. It marks an important step forward as a high-profile publication trying to radically re-think the challenge of sustainable development and revisit what it means to develop as human beings interconnected within earth systems. This article provides a critical re…
El desarrollo humano integral: Una aproximación desde la tradición social católica y el enfoque de las capacidades de Amartya Sen
The concept of integral human development is central to the Catholic social tradition. Yet, it remains under-explored with regard to its integrating components and their implications. What does taking an integral human development perspective mean for social analysis and action? The paper seeks to answer this question on the basis of the four encyclicals in which the idea of integral human development is treated, and in combination with the liter…
Engaging development and religion: Methodological groundings
The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing
In recent years, I have often been asked by fellow researchers interested in the capability approach if I knew of any ethnographic material which explores “the capabilities that people have reason
Expanding Freedoms, Changing Structures: The Human Development Report 2014
Contesting the Boundaries of Religion in Social Mobilization
This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of religion in social mobilization. It argues that existing approaches to the study of the role of religion in social mobilization have been insufficiently nuanced and have failed to probe the multiple and often contradictory influences that religion can have on mobilization channels. On the basis of three qualitative case studies from Malaysia, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom…
Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics
The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a his…
Capacidades de Desarrollo y Sociedad Civil en la Villas de la Ciudad (Development Capabilities and Civil Society in the Slums of the City of Buenos Aires)
Capacidades de Desarrollo y Sociedad Civil en la Villas de la Ciudad (Development Capabilities and Civil Society in the Slums of the City of Buenos Aires)." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 15(2-3), pp. 289–290
Recovering Nussbaum's Aristotelian roots
Purpose The paper aims to examine the relationship between creating capabilities and political liberalism. It argues that the reality of climate change calls for the capabilities approach to be more rooted in a relational anthropology which the Aristotelian ethical tradition is more akin to. Design/methodology/approach It discusses how traces of this ethical tradition can be found in Nussbaum's capabilities approach itself: affiliation as an arch…
Ethics and Development: An Introduction from the Perspective of the Capability Approach
The paper argues that development, understood as the set of economic, social, cultural and political processes oriented towards improving people's lives, is a normative project which rests on ethical foundations. Working in international development requires therefore an ethical reflection. The paper discusses development ethics as an inter-disciplinary field of study. It describes one leading contemporary ethical perspective in development studi…
Hope Movements: Naming Mobilization in a Post-development World
Social mobilizations that are devoted to contesting development and creating alternative economic arrangements conducive to the pursuit of a dignified life have recently sprung up. Not only do they criticize the current state of affairs but they actively seek and experience new ways of living, inspired by what Bloch calls the anticipatory consciousness of the 'not-yet-become', that is, another reality not yet materialized but which can be already…
Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict
In one of my first doctoral supervision meetings with Frances Stewart, I found a recurring comment pencilled throughout my abstract philosophical discussions on the capability approach: ‘What does this mean for the real world?’ During subsequent doctoral supervisions, she often emphasised three points. First, humans are not free individual agents who decide and act on the basis of their own reasoning. They are profoundly social and embedded into …
Development and the Limits of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice
This review article critically analyses the contribution of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice to development studies. On the basis of examples of unjust situations derived from Sen's writings, the article discusses the limited reach of The Idea of Justice in addressing concrete cases of injustice. It contends that remedying injustice requires an understanding of how justice is structural, which recognises that discussion of justice is inseparable…
Negotiating religion in everyday life: A critical exploration of the relationship between religion, choices and behaviour
One of the characteristics most often associated with religion is that it is a discrete source of value that shapes people's attitudes and behaviour. In some cases, these values may be negative such as submission or violence; in other cases, religion is seen to promote positive values such as charity and social justice. In recent years, the international development community has reawakened an interest in religion, and has directly embraced the a…
Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Religion in Development: Rewriting the Secular Script
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in the evolution of development thought, how it has been conceptualised in the social sciences, and highlights the major deficiencies of the assumption of …
An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency
Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme has been publishing Human Development Reports at the global, regional, national and local level. The message in these reports is simple: development is about giving people the opportunities to live lives they value, and about enabling them to become actors in their own destinies. The message is based on the 'capability approach' of economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Today, there is…
On the Use of Narratives for Assessing Development Policy
The paper discusses the extent to which narratives enrich human development policy assessment beyond statistical data. Our arguments are divided in three parts. First, after introducing the capability approach, we examine the theoretical rationale for assessing policy beyond statistics and the relevance of narratives in policy assessment. Second, we review one major exception in policy assessment, the European Union (EU) Community Infrastructure …
The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications
The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the strength of the often misunderstood individual focus of th…
Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach
Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Amartya Sen’s contribution to development thinking
Perfectionism, Paternalism and Liberalism in Sen and Nussbaum's Capability Approach
The aim of the paper is to analyse the theoretical foundations of human development policies as found in Sen's and Nussbaum's capability approach to development, and to examine to what extent undertaking policies according to the capability approach respects people's freedom to pursue their own conception of the good. The paper argues that policies undertaken according to the capability approach have to be guided by a perfectionist conception of …
Hope Movements: Naming Mobilization in a Post-development World
Social mobilizations that are devoted to contesting development and creating alternative economic arrangements conducive to the pursuit of a dignified life have recently sprung up. Not only do they criticize the current state of affairs but they actively seek and experience new ways of living, inspired by what Bloch calls the anticipatory consciousness of the 'not-yet-become', that is, another reality not yet materialized but which can be already…
Negotiating religion in everyday life: A critical exploration of the relationship between religion, choices and behaviour
One of the characteristics most often associated with religion is that it is a discrete source of value that shapes people's attitudes and behaviour. In some cases, these values may be negative such as submission or violence; in other cases, religion is seen to promote positive values such as charity and social justice. In recent years, the international development community has reawakened an interest in religion, and has directly embraced the a…
On the Use of Narratives for Assessing Development Policy
The paper discusses the extent to which narratives enrich human development policy assessment beyond statistical data. Our arguments are divided in three parts. First, after introducing the capability approach, we examine the theoretical rationale for assessing policy beyond statistics and the relevance of narratives in policy assessment. Second, we review one major exception in policy assessment, the European Union (EU) Community Infrastructure …
Individual Well-being, Migration Remittances and the Common Good
Education for just transitions: Lifelong learning and the 30th anniversary Human Development Report
The 30th anniversary Human Development Report, entitled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, was released by the United Nations Development Programme in December 2020. It marks an important step forward as a high-profile publication trying to radically re-think the challenge of sustainable development and revisit what it means to develop as human beings interconnected within earth systems. This article provides a critical re…
Religion and development: Integral ecology and the Catholic Church Amazon Synod
‘Religion and development’ is now a well-established research area within development studies. However, reflections on development from within the standpoint of religions remain largely unexplored. Interrogating processes of social change from a certain moral standpoint – whether some are more desirable or worthwhile than others – has been a defining characteristic of development studies throughout its history. The paper argues that, given these …
Engaging development and religion: Methodological groundings
Contesting the Boundaries of Religion in Social Mobilization
This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of religion in social mobilization. It argues that existing approaches to the study of the role of religion in social mobilization have been insufficiently nuanced and have failed to probe the multiple and often contradictory influences that religion can have on mobilization channels. On the basis of three qualitative case studies from Malaysia, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom…
The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing
In recent years, I have often been asked by fellow researchers interested in the capability approach if I knew of any ethnographic material which explores “the capabilities that people have reason
Perfectionism, Paternalism and Liberalism in Sen and Nussbaum's Capability Approach
The aim of the paper is to analyse the theoretical foundations of human development policies as found in Sen's and Nussbaum's capability approach to development, and to examine to what extent undertaking policies according to the capability approach respects people's freedom to pursue their own conception of the good. The paper argues that policies undertaken according to the capability approach have to be guided by a perfectionist conception of …
Amartya Sen’s contribution to development thinking
Promoting Human Freedoms under Conditions of Inequalities: A procedural framework
Considering people as agents of their own lives is central in Amartya Sen's freedom‐centred approach to development. In that respect, the capability approach grants a fundamental role to the ability to participate in the life of the community, which is referred to as the exercise of political freedom. The paper highlights a major tension between the promotion of human freedoms and the exercise of political freedom, and examines ways in which this…
Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach
Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy)
The "capability approach" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the freedoms human beings have reason to choose and value. The capability approach has frequently been criticised for a lack of attention to the ways in which unjust…
The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development
The book examines the extent to which Amartya Sen's conception of 'development as freedom' can be a guide for development policy. It argues that the theoretical foundations of the conception need to b
A Response to David Lehmann
Individual Well-being, Migration Remittances and the Common Good
The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications
The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into policy. This volume addresses these issues in the context of poverty and justice. Part I offers a set of conceptual essays that debate the strength of the often misunderstood individual focus of th…
Religion in Development: Rewriting the Secular Script
Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in the evolution of development thought, how it has been conceptualised in the social sciences, and highlights the major deficiencies of the assumption of …
An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency
Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme has been publishing Human Development Reports at the global, regional, national and local level. The message in these reports is simple: development is about giving people the opportunities to live lives they value, and about enabling them to become actors in their own destinies. The message is based on the 'capability approach' of economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Today, there is…
On the Use of Narratives for Assessing Development Policy
The paper discusses the extent to which narratives enrich human development policy assessment beyond statistical data. Our arguments are divided in three parts. First, after introducing the capability approach, we examine the theoretical rationale for assessing policy beyond statistics and the relevance of narratives in policy assessment. Second, we review one major exception in policy assessment, the European Union (EU) Community Infrastructure …
Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Advancing Human Development: Values, Groups, Power and Conflict
In one of my first doctoral supervision meetings with Frances Stewart, I found a recurring comment pencilled throughout my abstract philosophical discussions on the capability approach: ‘What does this mean for the real world?’ During subsequent doctoral supervisions, she often emphasised three points. First, humans are not free individual agents who decide and act on the basis of their own reasoning. They are profoundly social and embedded into …
Development and the Limits of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice
This review article critically analyses the contribution of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice to development studies. On the basis of examples of unjust situations derived from Sen's writings, the article discusses the limited reach of The Idea of Justice in addressing concrete cases of injustice. It contends that remedying injustice requires an understanding of how justice is structural, which recognises that discussion of justice is inseparable…
Negotiating religion in everyday life: A critical exploration of the relationship between religion, choices and behaviour
One of the characteristics most often associated with religion is that it is a discrete source of value that shapes people's attitudes and behaviour. In some cases, these values may be negative such as submission or violence; in other cases, religion is seen to promote positive values such as charity and social justice. In recent years, the international development community has reawakened an interest in religion, and has directly embraced the a…
Hope Movements: Naming Mobilization in a Post-development World
Social mobilizations that are devoted to contesting development and creating alternative economic arrangements conducive to the pursuit of a dignified life have recently sprung up. Not only do they criticize the current state of affairs but they actively seek and experience new ways of living, inspired by what Bloch calls the anticipatory consciousness of the 'not-yet-become', that is, another reality not yet materialized but which can be already…
Recovering Nussbaum's Aristotelian roots
Purpose The paper aims to examine the relationship between creating capabilities and political liberalism. It argues that the reality of climate change calls for the capabilities approach to be more rooted in a relational anthropology which the Aristotelian ethical tradition is more akin to. Design/methodology/approach It discusses how traces of this ethical tradition can be found in Nussbaum's capabilities approach itself: affiliation as an arch…
Ethics and Development: An Introduction from the Perspective of the Capability Approach
The paper argues that development, understood as the set of economic, social, cultural and political processes oriented towards improving people's lives, is a normative project which rests on ethical foundations. Working in international development requires therefore an ethical reflection. The paper discusses development ethics as an inter-disciplinary field of study. It describes one leading contemporary ethical perspective in development studi…
Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics
The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a his…
Capacidades de Desarrollo y Sociedad Civil en la Villas de la Ciudad (Development Capabilities and Civil Society in the Slums of the City of Buenos Aires)
Capacidades de Desarrollo y Sociedad Civil en la Villas de la Ciudad (Development Capabilities and Civil Society in the Slums of the City of Buenos Aires)." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 15(2-3), pp. 289–290
Contesting the Boundaries of Religion in Social Mobilization
This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of religion in social mobilization. It argues that existing approaches to the study of the role of religion in social mobilization have been insufficiently nuanced and have failed to probe the multiple and often contradictory influences that religion can have on mobilization channels. On the basis of three qualitative case studies from Malaysia, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom…
Expanding Freedoms, Changing Structures: The Human Development Report 2014
Engaging development and religion: Methodological groundings
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