A dialogue with Sen’s theory of capabilities and its implications for our national democratic revolution

dc.contributor.authorVellem, Vuyani Shadrack
dc.contributor.emailvuyani.vellem@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-25T08:52:02Z
dc.date.available2017-01-25T08:52:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-02
dc.descriptionThis article forms part of the special collection on ‘Engaging development: Contributions to a critical theological and religious debate’ in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies Volume 72, Issue 4, 2016.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn ‘traditional’ liberation theological discourse, especially the Latin American strand, the concept of development, desarrollismo, that is developmentalism, has been severely critiqued. In recent times, the interpretation of development shifted to a number of models, one of which has been the view of development as freedom, associated with Amartya Sen’s ‘capabilities theory’. While the capabilities theory ostensibly comes closer to the goals of the liberation paradigm in general, this article seeks to critically explore in dialogue with this theory of capabilities assumptions and implications of the concept of development for our national democratic revolution. A number of service delivery strikes in our land, with many poor people expecting government to ‘deliver’ for them, might suggest among other things that the state does ‘development’ for people, hence the designation of the post-1994 South African state as a ‘developmental state’. This article argues that, at foundational level, development understood as liberation could help alter the assumptions that held the national democratic revolution back.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2017en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVellem, V., 2016, ‘A dialogue with Sen’s Theory of capabilities and its implications for our National Democratic Revolution’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 72(4), a3581. http://dx.DOI. org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i4.3581.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v72i4.3581
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/58631
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen_ZA
dc.rights© 2016. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectDevelopmentalismen_ZA
dc.subjectLiberationen_ZA
dc.subjectService delivery strikesen_ZA
dc.subjectGovernmenten_ZA
dc.subjectSen’s theory
dc.subjectPost-1994 South African
dc.subjectNational democratic revolution
dc.subjectAmartya Sen
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-01
dc.subject.otherSDG-01: No poverty
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherTheology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleA dialogue with Sen’s theory of capabilities and its implications for our national democratic revolutionen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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