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Thesis: 'Contextualising Sen’s Development Ethics: Ethical Individualism and Deliberative Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa'
My thesis adopts a grounded and engaged normative theory approach to examine two normative commitments in capability-based development ethics: ethical individualism and deliberative participation. Bringing empirical research into dialogue with normative analysis, it explores whether and how these commitments can be refined. In doing so, it addresses what development aid should seek to achieve and how decisions about it should be made.
- Li, Y. (2026). 'State, food, and me: an autoethnographic reflection on the sociocultural dimensions of Chinese women’s eating disorders', Journal of Eating Disorders, 14(23). Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40337-025-01498-2.
Research
- Development ethics
- Development anthropology
- African philosophy
- Grounded and engaged normative theory
- Medical anthropology