Children and the Capability Approach

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction and Theoretical Perspectives on Children and the Capability Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction — Theoretical Foundations and the Book’s Roadmap

      • Flavio Comim, Jérôme Ballet, Mario Biggeri, Vittorio Iervese

      Pages 3-21

   3. Children’s Agency and the Capability Approach: A Conceptual Framework

      • Jérôme Ballet, Mario Biggeri, Flavio Comim

      Pages 22-45

   4. Child Poverty as Capability Deprivation: How to Choose Domains of Child Well-being and Poverty

      • Mario Biggeri, Santosh Mehrotra

      Pages 46-75

3. Understanding Children’s Capabilities: Methods and Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. From Valuing to Evaluating: Tools and Procedures to Operationalize the Capability Approach

      • Mario Biggeri, Renato Libanora

      Pages 79-106

   3. Street Children in Kampala and NGOs’ Actions: Understanding Capabilities Deprivation and Expansion

      • Rudolf Anich, Mario Biggeri, Renato Libanora, Stefano Mariani

      Pages 107-136

   4. Sen’s Capability Approach: Children and Well-being Explored through the Use of Photography

      • Anne Kellock, Rebecca Lawthom

      Pages 137-161

   5. Child Agency and Identity: The Case of Peruvian Children in a Transitional Situation

      • Marisa Horna Padrón, Jérôme Ballet

      Pages 162-174

   6. Micro-finance, Street Children and the Capability Approach: Is Micro-finance an Appropriate Tool to Address the Street Children Issue

      • Badreddine Serrokh

      Pages 175-199

   7. ‘Good for Children’? Local Understandings versus Universal Prescriptions: Evidence from Three Ethiopian Communities

      • Laura Camfield, Yisak Tafere

      Pages 200-221

   8. Children’s Capabilities and Family Characteristics in Italy: Measuring Imagination and Play

      • Tindara Addabbo, Maria Laura Di Tommaso

      Pages 222-242

4. Policy Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Rethinking Children’s Disabilities through the Capability Lens: A Framework for Analysis and Policy Implications

      • Jean-Francois Trani, Parul Bakhshi, Mario Biggeri

      Pages 245-270

   3. Rethinking Access to Education through the Capability Approach: The Case of Street Children

      • Jérôme Ballet, Augendra Bhukuth, Katia Radja

      Pages 271-285

   4. Re-examining Children’s Economic and Non-Economic Activities Using the Capability Approach

      • Mario Biggeri, Augendra Bhukuth, Jérôme Ballet

      Pages 286-303

   5. Children’s Capabilities: Toward a Framework for Evaluating the Built Environment

      • JungA Uhm, Ferdinand Lewis, Tridib Banerjee

      Pages 304-328

5. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329

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   2. Developing Children’s Capabilities: The Role of Emotions and Parenting Style

      • Flavio Comim

      Pages 331-339

Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.

• children
• development
• education
• emotion
• environment
• identity
• methods
• Nation
• participation
• poverty
• development policy
• childhood studies

'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

• University of Florence, Italy

  Mario Biggeri

• Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines, France

  Jérôme Ballet

• St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK

  Flavio Comim

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 IERVESEVITTORIO 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 Inclusive Development Centre at University College London, UK JUNGA UHM Currently works as a Regional Planner at the Southrn California Association of Governments, USA.

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