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Capabilities, aspirations, affordances

Collection of works on capabilities, aspirations, affordances in the sense of going beyond just "having", but being able to desire, wish, plan, take action.

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Appadurai, A. (2004). “The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition”. In Rap, V. & Walton, M. (Eds.), Culture and Public Action, Chapter 3, 59-84. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Blaschke, L.M. (2012). “Heutagogy and Lifelong Learning: A Review of Heutagogical Practice and Self-Determined Learning”. In International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 13 (1). Edmonton: Athabasca University. Retrieved February 04, 2012 from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1076
Crow, B., Zlatunich, N. & Fulfrost, B. (2009). “Mapping global inequalities: Beyond income inequality to multi-dimensional inequalities”. In Journal of International Development, 21 (8), 1051–1065. Indianapolis: Wiley Periodicals.
Esposito, A. (2014). The transition ‘from student to researcher’ in the digital age: Exploring the affordances of emerging ecologies of the PhD e-researchers. Barcelona: UOC. Retrieved October 24, 2016 from http://hdl.handle.net/10803/290995
Gibson, J.J. (1977). “The Theory of Affordances”. In Shaw, R. & Bransford, J., Perceiving, Acting and Knowing. Toward an Ecological Psychology, Chapter 3, 67-82. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Gibson, J.J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.
Hase, S. & Kenyon, C. (2000). “From Andragogy to Heutagogy”. In ultiBASE In-Site, December 2000. Melbourne: RMIT.
Mansell, R. (2002). “From Digital Divides to Digital Entitlements in Knowledge Societies”. In Current Sociology, 50 (3), 407-426. London: SAGE Publications.
Norman, D. (1999). “Affordance, conventions, and design”. In Interactions, 6 (3), 38-43. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved October 17, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.1145/301153.301168
Rozas, D., Tenorio-Fornés, A., Díaz-Molina, S. & Hassan, S. “When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance”. In SAGE Open, 11 (1). London: SAGE Publications. Retrieved March 30, 2021 from https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211002526
Sen, A. (1980). “Equality of What?”. In The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, I, 197-220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smit, A., Swart, J. & Broersma, M. (2025). “Understanding digital citizenship in everyday life: tensions between digital inclusion policies and disadvantaged citizens’ experiences”. In Information, Communication & Society, Published online: 17 Oct 2025. London: Routledge. Retrieved October 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2571396
Suthers, D.D. (2006). “Technology Affordances for Intersubjective Meaning-making: A Research Agenda for CSCL”. In International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 1, 315–337. Boston: Springer. Retrieved October 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-006-9660-y
Torero, M. & von Braun, J. (2006). Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Welzel, C., Inglehart, R. & Klingemann, H. (2003). “The theory of human development: A cross-cultural analysis”. In European Journal of Political Research, 42 (3), 341-379. Oxford: Blackwell. Retrieved April 20, 2007 from http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1475-6765.00086