%0 Journal Article
%T Playing for social equality
%A Lasse Nielsen
%J Politics, Philosophy & Economics
%@ 1741-3060
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1470594X18762255
%X This article claims that the protection of childrenĄ¯s capability for play is a central social-political goal. It provides the following three-premise argument in defense of this claim: (i) we have strong and wide-ranging normative reasons to be concerned with clusters of social deficiency; (ii) particular fertile functionings play a key role for tackling clusters of social deficiency; and finally (iii) the capability for childhood play is a crucial, ontogenetic prerequisite for the development of those particular fertile functionings. Thus, in so far as we consider it a central political goal to tackle social deficiency, we should be concerned with protection of childhood play capability. This conclusion raises new insights on the importance ¨C for global development policy as well as for welfare statesĄ¯ aim to secure social justice ¨C of protecting childrenĄ¯s capability to engage in playful activities
%K play
%K childhood
%K social inequality
%K capability
%K social policy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470594X18762255