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Although deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this gap by showing the implications of human dignity for international development theory, policy, and practice. Pushing against ideas of development that privilege the efficiency of systems that accelerate economic growth at the expense of human persons and their agency, the essays in this volume show how development work that lacks sensitivity to human dignity is blind. Instead, genuine development must advance human flourishing and not merely promote economic betterment. At the same time, the essays in this book also demonstrate that human dignity must be assessed in the context of real human experiences and practices. This volume therefore considers the meaning of human dignity inductively in light of development practice, rather than simply providing a theory or philosophy of human dignity in the abstract. It asks not only “what is dignity” but also “how can dignity be done?”

Through a unique multidisciplinary dialogue, The Practice of Human Development and Dignity offers a dialectical and systematic examination of human dignity that moves beyond the current impasse in thinking about the theory and practice of human dignity. It will appeal to scholars in the social sciences, philosophy, and legal and development theory, and also to those who work in development around the globe.

Contributors: Paolo G. Carozza, Clemens Sedmak, Séverine Deneulin, Simona Beretta, Dominic Burbidge, Matt Bloom, Deirdre Guthrie, Robert A. Dowd, Bruce Wydick, Travis J. Lybbert, Paul Perrin, Martin Schlag, Luigino Bruni, Lorenza Violini, Giada Ragone, Steve Reifenberg, Elizabeth Hlabse, Catherine E. Bolten, Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee, Tania Groppi, Maria Sophia Aguirre, and Martha Cruz-Zuniga

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Date de parution	31 octobre 2020
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THE PRACTICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND DIGNITY
RECENT TITLES FROM THE HELEN KELLOGG INSTITUTE SERIES ON DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT
Paolo G. Carozza and Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, series editors
The University of Notre Dame Press gratefully thanks the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies for its support in the publication of titles in this series.
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For a complete list of titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, see http://www.undpress.nd.edu .
THE PRACTICE OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
AND DIGNITY
EDITED BY
PAOLO G. CAROZZA
AND CLEMENS SEDMAK
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
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CONTENTS Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction. Human Dignity and the Practice of Human Development Paolo G. Carozza and Clemens Sedmak PART I. Conceptualizing Dignity through Practice ONE Enacting Human Dignity Clemens Sedmak TWO Human Dignity—Does It Imply a Certain Kind of Agency? A Viewpoint from Sen’s Capability Approach to Development Séverine Deneulin THREE Freedom and Agency: The Importance of Time and Relations for Development Simona Beretta FOUR Genuine Development: Reflections on Agency and Passivity Dominic Burbidge PART II. Dignity, Well-Being, and Flourishing: Relating Objective and Subjective Dimensions FIVE The Lived Experience of Dignity Matt Bloom and Deirdre Guthrie SIX Participation, Human Dignity, and Human Development: The Challenge of Establishing a Causal Relationship Robert A. Dowd SEVEN Hope and Human Dignity: Exploring Religious Belief, Hope, and Transition Out of Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico Bruce Wydick, Robert A. Dowd, and Travis J. Lybbert PART III. Dignity and Institutionalized Practices EIGHT Contextualized Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Paul Perrin NINE The Role of Human Dignity in Integral Human Development Martin Schlag TEN Reciprocity and Trust as the Telos of the Market: The Civil Economy Perspective Luigino Bruni ELEVEN Human Dignity, Development Policies, and the EU’s Human Rights Conditionality Lorenza Violini and Giada Ragone PART IV. Case Studies of Dignity in Practice TWELVE Dignity in Accompaniment: Integrated Healthcare in the Sierra Madres Steve Reifenberg and Elizabeth Hlabse THIRTEEN Being “For Others”: Human Rights, Personhood, and Dignity in Sierra Leone Catherine E. Bolten FOURTEEN “The Heart to Continue”: A Case Study on Mentorship in Periurban Kenya Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee FIFTEEN L’Arche as an Experience of Encounter Tania Groppi SIXTEEN Increasing the Efficiency of Outcomes through Cooperation and Initiative: An Integral Economics Approach to Randomized Field Experiments Maria Sophia Aguirre and Martha Cruz-Zuniga Contributors Index
FIGURES AND TABLES
FIGURES
5.1 Responses to Dignity
7.1 Words Invoked in Hopeful Statements from Participants in the World Bank’s Voice of the Poor Project
7.2 Estimated Effects of the Hope Intervention on the Catholic and Protestant Women in Our Study in Terms of Psychological Measures after One Month in the Microfinance Groups
7.3 Estimated Effects of the Hope Intervention on Microenterprise Performance Measures after One Month for Catholic and Protestant Women in the Microfinance Groups
10.1 The Trust Game
10.2 The Trust Game: The “Sacrifice” Frame
10.3 The Trust Game: The “Mutual Benefit” Frame
16.1 Framed Stage Experimental Design Diagram
16.2 Participatory Index’s Change Cumulative Distribution
TABLES
8.1 Dignity in the Humanitarian Consciousness
16.1 Baseline Social Characteristics of Treatment and Control Groups

16.2 Variables Used to Measure Behavioral Change
16.3 Intended Behavior Change
16.4 Change in Participatory Index
16.5 Regression Estimations
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special recognition is due above all to Elizabeth Hlabse for all her work in coordinating this project; without her help it is unlikely that the book would have come to fruition. We also thank Paula Mulherr for her support, along with the many outstanding staff persons at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies who contributed to the three successful international gatherings on dignity and development, in Rome and in South Bend, Indiana, that led to this volume. We are grateful for all the discussions with colleagues at the Kellogg Institute and the Center for Social Concerns, which helped clarify and develop the ideas explored in this book. Among them we would like to acknowledge especially Fr. Robert Dowd, CSC, and the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity for providing a platform from which to engage in dignity-based development work and research.
We dedicate this volume to our families, through whom we have learned far more about the enactment of human dignity in practice than we could ever learn from books.
INTRODUCTION
Human Dignity and the Practice of Human Development
Paolo G. Carozza and Clemens Sedmak
In the process of drawing up and adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the United Nations secretary general’s synthesis report endorsed human dignity as one of the six essential elements for delivering on the SDGs and appealed even in its title to the central ideal of dignity in the new development agenda. 1 But what exactly does human dignity have to do with, for example, the first SDG and its ambition to “eliminate poverty in all of its forms everywhere”? In fact, it is possible to reduce poverty in ways that simultaneously violate people’s dignity—for instance, by allowing the grave abuse of human rights. Resettlement strategies that displace thousands of people and destroy rural communities come to mind. Efficiency in the production and distribution of material resources is not enough.
In his well-known radio talk “Education after Auschwitz,” Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno talks about the role of efficiency in the postwar world. He characterizes “the manipulative character” as a person who “makes a cult of action, activity, of so-called efficiency as such which reappears in the advertising image of the active person.” And he continues by saying: “If I had to reduce this type of manipulative character to a formula—perhaps one should not do it, but it could also contribute to understanding—then I would call it the type of reified consciousness . People of such a nature have, as it were, assimilated themselves to things.” 2 Adorno’s remarks from April 1966 warn against a prevalence of a paradigm of agency that places efficiency at the center and encourages the development and employment of persons eager and able to enact this value. Enacting efficiency calls for a manipulative character who concentrates on fixing and transforming the world of things.
Obviously, transforming the world of things is a much-needed aspect of development work. We need wells and roads and communication tools and proper systems of production. But this is clearly not enough. Broadening the material things of development beyond economic growth to more human dimensions—say, through the Human Development Index or concepts of multidimensional poverty—can serve to remind us that a person does not live by bread alone. Even realizing the multitude of quantifiable aspects (e.g., employment rates, literacy rates, mortality rates) will not automatically lead to a more humane society.
What is missing in practices that accelerate economic performance and realize strategies of efficiency