Cultures of wellbeing
Subtitle: method, place, policy
By: edited by Sarah White, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath, UK, Chloe Blackmore, Researcher, University of Bath, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781137536440
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Politics & Government; Well-being; Interpersonal relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
Description: "The authors challenge conventional psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing, presenting an emergent, more socially grounded approach: relational wellbeing. Addressing the growing interest in happiness and wellbeing in public policy and practice, this edited collection combines critical conceptual analysis with case studies from across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the UK. It draws on different disciplines and explores wellbeing in relation to diverse aspects of life: health and physical activity; religion; migration; economic life; family relationships; landmine impact; national surveys and indigenous community identities. Highlighting the politics of research methodologies, the contributions explore complementarities and tensions between quantitative and qualitative methods; the significance of gender, life-course and place; and the role of culture and researchers' identities in shaping the accounts of wellbeing produced. Underlying the volume is a strong commitment to person-centred approaches which enable people to express what is important for wellbeing in their own terms"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction: The Many Faces of Wellbeing; Sarah White; title: PART I: MIXED METHODS; title: 2. Enquiries into Wellbeing: How Could Qualitative Data be Used to Improve the Reliability of Survey Data?; Laura Camfield; title: 3. Measuring National Wellbeing: What Matters to You? What Matters to Whom?; Susan Oman; title: 4. Staying well in a South African Township: Stories from Public Health and Sociology; Emer Brangan; title: 5. Economics and Subjectivities of Wellbeing in Rural Zambia; Sarah White and Viviana Ramirez; title: 6. 'The Weight Falls on my Shoulders': Close Relationships and Women's Wellbeing in India; Shreya Jha and Sarah White; title: PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; title: 7. The Dynamics of Relational Wellbeing in the Context of Mobility in Peru; Rebecca Huovinen and Chloe Blackmore; title: 8. Tensions in Conceptualising Psychosocial Wellbeing in Angola: The Marginalisation of Religion and Spirituality; Carola Eyber; title: 9. Picture This: Visual Explorations of Wellbeing in a Landmine-contaminated Landscape in Cambodia; Gabrielle Davies; title: 10. Authorised Voices in the Construction of Wellbeing: A Reflective Ethnographic Experience in Northern Mexico; Juan Loera-Gonz&#225;lez; title: 11. Historical Reconstruction and Cultural Identity Building as a Local Pathway to 'Living Well' amongst the Pemon of Venezuela; Ioki&#241;e Rodriguez.