Human Development in Times of Crisis

1. Introduction. Capabilities and Society: Renegotiating Social Justice in Times of Crisis
Hans-Uwe Otto, Holger Ziegler, Spyridon Pantazis, Antoanneta Potsi
Part I: Evaluating public policy - Capability Perspectives
2. The ambivalence of social policies and the challenge of Human Development: A proposal for assessing their impact against the capability approachJean-Michel Bonvin
3. Corrosive disadvantages and intersectionality: empirical evidence on multidimensional inequality accross youth in EuropeAlberta Spreafico, Agnese Peruzzi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
4. Capabilities and working lives Benedicte Zimmermann
Part II: Education and life situations of young people
5. Children's rights in times of austerityZoe Clark6. Children's well-being in times of crisis in PIIGS countries: the Capability Approach as a multidimensional approach to deprivationAntoanneta Potsi, Antonella D'Agostino, Caterina Giusti
7. Capabilities as the informational basis for gender equality policy in higher educationMelanie Walker, Sonja Loots
8. The University and sustainable human developmentDes Gasper
Part III: Conceptual Concerns of Human Development
9. A brief history of liberty and its lessonsPhilip Pettit
10. Some reflections on capability and the Republican Freedom as a response to Philip Pettit's Address on the Martha Nussbaum SymposiumMozaffar Qizilbash
11. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-RankingMartha Nussbaum
Part IV: Policies of and Challenges to Human Development in Times of Crisis
12. Inclusive Human Progress: from structural vulnerabilities to social cohesionAstra Bonini
13. Confronting Inequality and Corruption: Agency, Empowerment, and Democratic DevelopmentDavid Crocker
14. Public choice and the CA: Self-interest, altruisme and their consequences for sustainable development groupsJürgen Volkert and  Raimund Krumm
15. Innovation and Justice: contributions of the capabilities approach to a 21st century, transformative perspective on innovation Rafael

Hans-Uwe Otto is Professor of Educational Science at Bielefeld University, Germany, Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Director of the Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability Research, Germany. Spyros Pantazis is Professor Emeritus of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He was scientific director for academic upgrading programs and vocational training for Greece and Albania. He is Project Manager for VERSO - Volunteers for European Employment project.Holger Ziegler is Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Educational Science and a Member of the Bielefeld Centre for Education and Capability Research. He has run several international 'Social Work & Society' Academy - TiSSA conferences.Antoanneta Potsi is Research Fellow at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and was Conference Manager of the 2014 HDCA Conference.