Yes / The capability approach (CA), while originally regarded as a ‘thin’ framework relating to an individual’s ‘States’, has been progressively deployed in wider spaces of social welfare and policy development. In general, the CA centralises an individual’s (or group’s) functionings, and the freedom to achieve those functionings. One under-researched area is the expression of capabilities when constraints are imposed hegemonically, that is, when an individual (or group) appears to consent to having their choices limited because of some underlying sociocultural ideology. Hegemonic forces are particularly relevant to the application of the CA against the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs); specifically, reduced inequalities (Goal 10) under its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, since it is generally under large-scale policy regime shifts that sociocultural inequalities are broken and renewed. New, less transparent hegemonies often emerge within policy changes that seek to address inequalities, and they typically embody a mitigating reaction to social risks emanating from policy change. The chapter is fundamentally a theoretical and conceptual paper, approached from an interdisciplinary context, and draws on concepts such as sustainable development, capability approach, and freedom in analysing hegemonic forces with respect to reducing inequalities. / The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 26 Jan 2026.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19789 |
| Date | 21 January 2024 |
| Creators | Jogie, M., Ikejiaku, Brian V. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book chapter, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Capability Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals: Inter, Multi, and Trans Disciplinary Perspectives. in July 2024, available online at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Capability-Approach-and-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Inter-Multi/Ikejiaku/p/book/9781032598574#, Unspecified |
| Relation | https://www.routledge.com/The-Capability-Approach-and-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Inter-Multi/Ikejiaku/p/book/9781032598574# |
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