Collective political capabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12866738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avery Kolers (0000-0001-6237-3134, University of Louisville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 46-54 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & Global Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-6369 • E-ISSN: 1654-4951 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/16544951.2023.2216110 |
| OpenAlex | W4385064928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements makes a significant contribution to contemporary capability theories by challenging their individualism. Mainline versions of the Capabilities Approach (CA), including those developed by Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen, and Ingrid Robeyns, insist on a methodological and normative individualism. And with good reason: communitarianism most often reinscribes patriarchal power, especially within the family. Deveaux, however, argues that this individualism yields a depoliticized account of poverty as capability deprivation, thereby downplaying or even denying the agency of the poor. But poor-led social movements politicize poverty, understanding it as a social and political relation between individuals and institutions. These movements build collective political capabilities: capabilities that can be exercised only by groups or that promote collective goods. The current paper explicates, extends, and defends this powerful challenge to mainline capability theories
Agency (philosophy · Capability approach · Collective action · Communitarianism · Economics · Individualism · Liberalism · Methodological individualism · Neoclassical economics · Normative · Political economy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Creating Capabilities
Development as Freedom
Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements
Measuring Poverty
From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice
Autonomous peasant struggles and left arts of government
Response to commentaries
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
Women and Human Development
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |