Dr Séverine Deneulin
Current research interest
- Ethical and justice issues arising from the extractive industry
Profile
Séverine Deneulin is a Senior Lecturer in International Development. Her research is in ethics and development policy. She specialises in the ethical framework of the capability approach and in Latin America. She also researches the role of religion in international development and social justice.
She teaches a module on human development and the capability approach in a Masters at the University of Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Argentina. She is the Secretary of the Human Development and Capability Association.
Séverine holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a DPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.
Research
- Sen's capability approach to development
- Political philosophy and ethics
- Religion and development
Teaching
Undergraduate
- SP30213/ SP50237: Latin America Regional Research Specialism (Moodle course
University of Bath only) - SP30264: Religion and Social Politics in the Contemporary World
Postgraduate
- Director of Studies: MSc Wellbeing in Public Policy and International Development
- SP50230: Wellbeing and Human Development: concepts, measurement and policy (Moodle course University of Bath only) (also available distance-learning as Continuing Professional Development)
- SP50231: Wellbeing & Human Development 2: development ethics (Moodle course University of Bath only) (also available distance-learning as Continuing Professional Development)
- SP50218: Policy Theory and Politics of Developing Countries (Moodle course University of Bath only)
Publications
Book/s
Deneulin, S., 2014. Forthcoming. Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics. London: Routledge. (Human Development and Capability Debates Series)
Deneulin, S. and Shahani, L., 2009. An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. London: Earthscan.
Deneulin, S. and Bano, M., 2009. Religion in development: rewriting the secular script. London, U. K.: Zed.
Deneulin, S., Nebel, M. and Sagovsky, N., eds., 2006. Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach. Dordrecht: Springer.
Deneulin, S., 2006. The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Sections
Deneulin, S., 2013. Christianity and international development: An overview. In: Clarke, M., ed. Handbook of Religion and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Deneulin, S., 2013. Forthcoming. Constructing new policy narratives: the capability approach as normative language. In: Stewart, F. and Cornia, A. G., eds. Festschrift in honour of Sir Richard Jolly. Oxford University Press.
Deneulin, S., 2011. Advancing human development: values, groups, power and conflict. In: Fitzgerald, V., Heyer, J. and Thorp, R., eds. Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-148.
Deneulin, S., 2008. Beyond Individual Freedom and Agency: Structures of Living Together in Sen’s Capability Approach to Development. In: Alkire, S., Comim, F. and Qizilbash, M., eds. The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Application. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 105-124.
Deneulin, S., 2006. Necessary Thickening’: Ricoeur’s Ethics of Justice as a Complement to Sen’s Freedom-Centred View of Development. In: Deneulin, S., Nebel, M. and Sagovsky, N., eds. Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, pp. 27-45.
Deneulin, S. and Alkire, S., 2002. Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for Within-group Behaviour. In: Stewart, F., Heyer, J. and Thorp, R., eds. Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation? Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 51-73.
Articles
Deneulin, S., 2013. Ethics and Development : An Introduction from the Perspective of the Capability Approach. Geography Compass, 7 (3), pp. 217-227.
Deneulin, S., 2013. Ethics and development: An introduction from the perspective of the capability approach. Geography Compass, 7 (3), pp. 217-227.
Deneulin, S., 2013. Recovering Nussbaum’s Aristotelian roots. International Journal of Social Economics, 40 (7), pp. 624-632.
Dinerstein, A. C. and Deneulin, S., 2012. Hope movements: naming mobilization in a post-development world. Development and Change, 43 (2), pp. 585-602.
Deneulin, S. and Rakodi, C., 2011. Revisiting religion: development studies thirty years on. World Development, 39 (1), pp. 45-54.
Deneulin, S., 2011. Development and the limits of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice. Third World Quarterly, 32 (4), pp. 787-797.
Devine, J. and Deneulin, S., 2011. Negotiating religion in everyday life: A critical exploration of the relationship between religion, choices and behaviour. Culture and Religion, 12 (1), pp. 59-76.
Deneulin, S. and McGregor, J. A., 2010. The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing. European Journal of Social Theory, 13 (4), pp. 501-519.
Deneulin, S., 2010. Book review: Michael Sandel's Justice and Amartya Sen's Idea of Justice. Oxford Development Studies, 38 (3), pp. 383-388.
Deneulin, S., 2009. Intellectual roots of Amartya Sen: Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx - Book Review. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 10 (2), pp. 305-306.
Hodgett, S. and Deneulin, S., 2009. On the use of narratives for assessing development policy. Public Administration, 87 (1), pp. 65-79.
Deneulin, S. and De Herdt, T., 2007. Individual freedoms as relational experiences - Guest editors' introduction. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 8 (2), pp. 179-184.
Deneulin, S. and Townsend, N., 2007. Public Goods, Global Public Goods and the Common Good. International Journal of Social Economics, 34 (1-2), pp. 19-36.
Deneulin, S. and Sweeney, J., 2006. Faith’s Public Role: Politics and Theology. Political Theology, 7 (3), pp. 261-263.
Deneulin, S., 2006. Individual Well-Being, Migration Remittances and the Common Good. European Journal of Development Research, 18 (1), pp. 45-61.
Deneulin, S., 2006. Secularism and the Public-Private Divide: A Response to David Lehmann. Political Theology, 7 (3), pp. 295-298.
Deneulin, S., 2005. Development as Freedom and the Costa Rican Human Development Story. Oxford Development Studies, 33 (3-4), pp. 493-510.
Deneulin, S., 2005. Promoting Human Freedoms under Conditions of Inequalities: A Procedural Framework. Journal of Human Development and Capablilites, 6 (1), pp. 75-92.
Deneulin, S. and Stewart, F., 2002. Amartya Sen’s contribution to development thinking. Studies in Comparative International Development, 37 (2), pp. 61-70.
Deneulin, S., 2002. Perfectionism, Liberalism and Paternalism in Sen and Nussbaum's Capability Approach. Review of Political Economy, 14 (4), pp. 497-518.
Reports/Papers
Deneulin, S., 2012. Justice and deliberation about the good life: The contribution of Latin American buen vivir social movements to the idea of justice. Working Paper. Bath: Centre for Development Studies. (Bath Papers in International Development and Well-Being; 17)
Deneulin, S., 2010. Development and the limits of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice. Working Paper. Bath, UK: Bath Papers in International Development. Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath.
Deneulin, S. and Dinerstein, A. C., 2010. Hope movements : social movements in the pursuit of human development. Working Paper. Bath, U. K.: Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath. (Bath Papers in International Development; BPD8)
Deneulin, S., 2010. Human Flourishing and the UK Economic Model. Working Paper. CAFOD, Tearfund and Theos.
Deneulin, S., Brown, G. and Devine, J., 2009. Contesting the boundaries of religion in social mobilization. Working Paper. Bath Papers in International Development.
Deneulin, S., 2009. Advancing human development: Values, groups, power and conflict. Working Paper. Bath, UK: University of Bath/Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group. (Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) Working Papers; WeD Working Paper 09)
Deneulin, S. and McGregor, J. A., 2009. The Capability Approach and the Politics of a Social Conception of Wellbeing. Working Paper. Bath: Wellbeing in Developing Countries/University of Bath. (Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) Working Papers; WeD Working Paper 09)
