Confronting Power through Policy
On the Creation and Spread of Liberating Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22992913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne T Hill (corresponding author), Marianne Hill |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-282 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/14649880701371158 |
| OpenAlex | W2066914707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
The expansion of capability opportunities is an underlying objective of the capability approach. However, related goals such as righting basic social inequities or correcting ecological imbalances require changes in social institutions and practices. Such change in turn rests on the creation and spread of liberating knowledge and practices. In this light, I argue that prospective analyses (i.e. analyses intended to result in concrete proposals for actions to enhance the functioning of society) require methodologies that will clarify the nature of liberating knowledge and the obstacles to its development and diffusion. Methodologies appropriate to the evaluation of the state of being or the capability to function of individuals are not sufficient for this task. Rather, methodologies are required that have been crafted for the study of social behaviour, ones that recognize the situated nature of knowledge and that work with insights from different standpoints. Such methodologies will facilitate analysis of social power in different institutional contexts and will clarify the process of the creation and spread of new social understandings and practices.
Economics · Function (biology) · Knowledge management · Management · Political science · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Situated · Social change · Sociology · State (computer science) · Task (project management) · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law
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The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
Amartya Sen, the World Bank, and the Redress of Urban Poverty
Passions within Reason
Liberating Economics
Development as Freedom
Valuing Freedoms
Power in Movement
Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies
Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality
Adding links, adding persons, and adding structures
Sen, Ethics, and Democracy
Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice
Continuing the Conversation
Development as Empowerment
Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements
A Theory of True Interests in the Work of Amartya Sen
The New Institutional Economics
The Vulcanization of the Human Brain
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |