Sen's Entitlement Approach: Critiques and Counter-critiques

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Technology, capabilities and critical perspectives: what can critical theory contribute to Sen’s capability approach? (2011, background): “The emphasis on individual agency gives rise to the critique of Sen’s work as being overly individualistic, and paying insufficient attention to groups and social structures (e.g. Corbridge 2002; Devereux 2001; Navarro 2000; Deneulin et al. 2006).”
Famine in North Korea : markets, aid, and reform (2007, background): “…and others begin to elaborate how work, production, and exchange entitlements were embedded in systems of political rights, what Appadurai (1984) called “enfranchisement,” and de Waal (1997) captured in the idea of an “anti-famine political contract” (see also Ravallion 1987; Devereux 1993:76–82).”
Water and Human Development (2014, background): “Devereux (2001) also argues that the focus the individual as a unit of analysis can be problematic where natural resource management is linked to units beyond the individual (such as the household, extended family and lineage groups).”