Development as freedom after Flint
A geographical approach to capabilities and antipoverty communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12890331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clayton Rosati (0000-0001-8807-3922, Bowling Green State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-159 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-7143 • E-ISSN: 1747-6615 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17447143.2018.1474884 |
| OpenAlex | W2803393828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
Despite widespread acceptance of the capabilities approach the world finds itself more unequal, more damaged by war and subjected to unnecessary scarcity. Is it possible that Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom (DAF) (2000) paradigm, itself, needs a reappraisal in light of this? Or, what makes Sen so easy to ignore? The essay below argues, like some, for specifics and ‘feasible prescription’ in the reading of Sen’s work, but it pushes that Sen’s approach is not specific enough in its analytical frameworks for the causes of key forms of poverty. As a remedy, this essay looks at this important text’s problems and opportunities, specifically from a geographical perspective. This is done in the context of Flint City, Michigan, USA’s politically made ongoing water disaster as a heuristic (and to keep it on the tips of our tongues) for imagining how parts of the geographical tradition can push DAF into more rigorous territory. How does Flint reveal the geographical nature of ‘capabilities deprivation’, or Sen’s reframing of poverty? And, what new directives become necessary for an understanding of Sen's approach when considering geography and communication together? What new directives become necessary for an understanding of development as freedom? We begin with Flint City, a quintessential case of Sen’s capabilities deprivation
Cognitive reframing · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Nexus (standard · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Poverty · Reading (process · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Computer Science · History · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Social Psychology
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
Risk Society
The wages of whiteness
Reading Capital Politically
Open veins of Latin America
Represent and Destroy
Poverty Capital
The Wages of Whiteness
Guy Debord, ‘Gilded Poverty’, and the Contemporary Crisis
Beyond the Regulation Approach
The Limits to Capital
Value in Marx
Communication for Development
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
Beautiful Wasteland
Risk Society
A Case Study of Environmental Injustice
Beyond exchange and agglomeration
Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements
What kind of right is the right to the city
The social construction of scale
Scale and the limitations of ontological debate
Slavery and Social Death
Scale as relation
Unholy Trinity
Risk and Responsibility
Human geography without scale
Understanding Urban Processes in Flint, Michigan
The Urban Question
From the Global Food Crisis to the Age of Austerity
Contours of a Spatialized Politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |