Indigenous health

Capabilities and freedom

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6256348
AutoresDominic O’sullivan (0000-0003-1696-1802, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume16
Fascículo5
Páginas733-751
Data de publicação2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796815603756
OpenAlexW2377555578
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

The life expectancy differential between Indigenous and other Australians is in the order of 11 years and requires far-reaching, complex and multifaceted policy responses. Theories and instruments of international human rights are among those that have helped to shape responsive policy discourses. Developing these often abstract rights into people’s substantive capacities to make meaningful choices about how they will live is difficult, but the article shows how this is possible with reference to a general theory of capabilities as self-determination. Such a theory, proceeds from Sen and Nussbaum’s extension of Aristotle’s concern for ‘human flourishing’ where the political right to self-determination, affirmed at international law, presumes certain essentialist capabilities to secure, people’s political agency. These essentialist capabilities suggest a distribution of authority on the basis of equal opportunities to make choices of personal value, rather than just an egalitarian concern for equality of outcomes

Agency (philosophy · Capability approach · Environmental ethics · Essentialism · Flourishing · Human rights · Indigenous · Law and economics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Self-determination · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology