ISBN:
0230608698
,
9780230608696
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 269 p)
,
ill
,
25 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies of the Americas
Parallel Title:
Print version Wellbeing and Development in Peru : Local and Universal Views Confronted
DDC:
306.0985/09049
Keywords:
Quality of life
;
Well-being
Abstract:
This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Resources, Conflict, and Social Identity in Context; 3 Subjective Wellbeing: An Alternative Approach; 4 Economic Welfare, Poverty, and Subjective Wellbeing; 5 Wellbeing and Migration; 6 Wellbeing and Institutions; 7 Reproducing Unequal Security: Peru as a Wellbeing Regime; 8 Conclusions and Implications for Development Policy and Practice; 9 Implications for Wellbeing Research and Theory; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-264) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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