Beyond utilitarian economics : a capability approach to energy poverty and social suffering
- Authors: Chipango, Ellen Fungisai
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Capability approach , Social suffering , Energy poverty
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/481760 , uj:43663 , Citation: Chipango, E.F. 2021. Beyond utilitarian economics : a capability approach to energy poverty and social suffering.
- Description: Abstract: This article uses energy poverty and social suffering phenomena to show the inadequacy of utilitarian policy-making that puts primary focus on resource generation and availability as a means of socio-economic development. This approach fails to acknowledge that energy generation can go-hand-in-hand with energy poverty and social suffering. Drawing on empirical qualitative research in Zimbabwe, the article shows how a lack of social and political-economic capabilities contributes to energy poverty, which consequently leads to social suffering. The article draws on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, and then extends the argument through a Foucauldian analysis of power...
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Precarious, more precarious, most precarious? The quality of life of waste pickers in the Karoo
- Authors: Schenck, Rinie , Viljoen, Kotie , Blaauw, David
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Karoo , Waste picker , Waste reclaimer , Amartya Sen , Capability approach
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/485351 , uj:44113 , DOI:10.15270/57-3-949 , Citation: Schenck, R.; Viljoen, K.; Blaauw, D. 2021. Precarious, more precarious, most precarious? The quality of life of waste pickers in the Karoo. Social Work Journal, 57(3): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.15270/57-3-949 , ISSN: 2312-7198
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Towards a multi-dimensional index of child growth to combat the double burden of malnutrition
- Authors: Haisma, Hinke , Pelto, Gretel , Venkatapuram, Sridhar , Yousefzadeh, Sepideh , Kramer, Lybrich , Anand, Paul
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Multi-dimensional , Capability approach , Child growth
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407649 , uj:34322 , Citation: Haisma, H. et al. 2019: Towards a multi-dimensional index of child growth to combat the double burden of malnutrition. Ann Nutr Metab 2019;75:123–126. DOI: 10.1159/000503670.
- Description: Abstract: Background: There is growing awareness in the field of pub- lic health that combatting the double burden of malnutri- tion requires approaches that address its multi-dimensional origin, rather than focusing primarily on the biomedical domain...
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