As the first volume of the Encountering Mission series, Introducing World Missions provides
a broad overview of world missions. The book is divided into five major sections. The first …

This paper investigates social and environmental injustices in solid waste management in
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The urban poor in most parts of …

Abstract Amartya Sen's 1998 Nobel Prize and his recent synthesis of his views in
Development as Freedom provide an opportunity to assess his intellectual contribution and …

In recent years, democrats both inside and outside the academy have begun to reconsider
the merits of the age-old practice of sortition, the random selection of political officials …

Some epistemic approaches to democracy evince an exclusivistic approach to voting
participation whereby high turnout elections are thought to produce adverse outcomes. On …

This paper presents a structured comparison of the social quality approach with the UNDP-
led'human development'approach and its sister work (especially in the UN system and …

Social generativity is a distinctive social phenomenon apt to enlighten the relation between
personal development and social change. It is an empirically observable process–as …

Development has been on Africaís agenda for a long time but progress has been both
varied and limited, partly due to the diverse levelsof the discussions ont he challenges and …

During the 1990s we gradually learnt the insightful, liberating new languages of 'human
development'and the capability approach (from, for example, UNDP 1990, Nussbaum & Sen …

For over a decade there has been an increase in the commodification of land to meet the
worldwide demand for food and materials, resulting in land acquisitions by a wide range of …