Introducing Joint Capabilities
Findings from a Study of Development in Honduras’ Garifuna Ancestral Villages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12984072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Melchor Quick Hall (0000-0001-9175-020X, Five Colleges, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-74 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19452829.2016.1199168 |
| OpenAlex | W2471527481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article argues for the family as a unit of analysis within capabilities approaches to human development. Challenging the liberal emphasis on the individual, this article illustrates that individualist approaches to families do not account for the relatively common scenario of families acting as a unit. Building upon Margaret Gilbert’s concept of plural subject agents, the paper suggests a new category of capabilities called joint capabilities that apply to the opportunities afforded to families that function as a unit. In order to build the case for joint capabilities, the author’s experiences and observations of family in the Afro-indigenous Garifuna ancestral villages of Honduras are discussed. More specifically, the capability of rural families to make cassava bread, or ereba in the Garifuna language, is explored. While the Garifuna family is explored as an important unit of analysis for understanding capabilities, the family is also examined as a complex context for exploration of power relations and inequality
Context (archaeology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Inequality · Linguistics · Plural · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · History · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
The Making of Social Movements in Latin America
Creating Capabilities
Responsibility for Each Other's Freedom
From Individual to Collective Capabilities
The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development
Political Virtue and Shopping
Groups and Capabilities
Migration and life‐cycle among Garifuna (Black Carib) street vendors
Collective capabilities, culture, and Amartya Sen’sDevelopment as Freedom
The Capability Approach
Weaving the Past
The Idea of Justice
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |