Children and the Capability Approach / Studies in Childhood and Youth (PDF)

TINDARA ADDABBO Associate Professor of Political Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy RUDOLF ANICH Junior Researcher at the International Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland PARUL BAKHSHI Freelance Social Psychologist with experience in the fields of Education, Gender and Disability TRIDIB BANARJEE holder of the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, USA KAUSHIK BASU C.Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA BHUKUTH AUGENDRA Centre for Research and Poverty Analysis in the National Empowerment Foundation at the Republic of Mauritius, Mauritius LAURA CAMFIELD Senior Researcher at Young Lives, the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK MARIA LAURA DI TOMMASO Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Turin, Italy MARISA HORNA Psychotherapist at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru IERVESE VITTORIO Researcher and Assistant Professor in Sociology of Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy ANNE KELLOCK Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK REBECCA LAWTHOM Reader in Community Practice in the Psychology Department at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK FERDINAND LEWIS Lecturer at the College of Design, Constructions and Planning at the University of Florida, USA RENATO LIBANORA Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development at the University of Florence, Italy STEFANO MARIANI Economist and Statistician at the Department of Statistics, University of Florence, Italy KATIA RADJA Senior Lecturer at the University of Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines, France BRADREDDINE SERROKH Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for European Research in Microfinance, Universitié Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium YISAK TAFERE Lead Qualitative Researcher for Young Lives, Ethiopia JEAN-FRANCOIS TRANI Senior Research Associate at the Leonard Cheshire Disability and

'This landmark book opens up children's capabilites as an entirely new field. Combining illuminating theoretical discussion and a wide range of interesting international case studies, the book establishes how we can do much more to recognise children in the conceptual vocabulary of the capability approach. It thus orients us towards better social research and practice with and for children.'

- Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'...a much-needed book...Children and the Capability Approach will no doubt become recommended reading for both new and established scholars wishing to further develop and apply the CA in research with children.' -Journal of Human Development and Capabilities