Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights
Supplementation and Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2183553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha C Nussbaum |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-37 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19452829.2011.541731 |
| OpenAlex | W2066488390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 84 |
| References cited | 7 |
Capabilities are closely related to human rights. Capabilities are important human entitlements, inherent in the idea of basic social justice, and can be viewed as one species of a human rights approach. This paper explores this relationship, expanding on earlier publications, notably Capabilities and Human Rights (1997 Nussbaum, M. C. 1997. ‘Capabilities and human rights’. Fordham Law Review, 66: 273–300. [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), Women and Human Development (2000 Nussbaum, M. C. 2000. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements (2003 Nussbaum, M. C. 2003. ‘Capabilities as fundamental entitlements’. Feminist Economics, 9: 33–59. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), and Frontiers of Justice (2005 Nussbaum, M. C. 2005. Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Google Scholar]). Capabilities are complementary to and augment, rather than competing with, human rights. Capabilities can supplement the language of rights in clarifying the basic concept of human rights, by emphasizing the material and social aspect of all rights and the need for government action to protect and secure all rights. They also ground entitlements in the lives of ordinary people, without tying them down to a specific cultural context. Human rights can also supplement the language of capabilities. Human rights makes clear that the idea of capabilities is not an optional entitlement, but an urgent demand that should not be ignored nor compromised in pursuit of other objectives such as expansion of aggregate wealth. Human rights have gained support and endorsement the world over, and the idea of rights has the capacity to mobilize political action
Capability approach · Cultural rights · Economic Justice · Economics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Tying · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Human Rights and Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law
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| Unique citing works | 84 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 82 |