ISBN:
1-78990-016-6
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (328 pages).
Series Statement:
Elgar modern guides series
Series Statement:
Elgar Modern Guides
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Well-being Research.
Abstract:
"This insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives. Exploring the threats to wellbeing from the environments we inhabit and the situations societies create and endure, chapters particularly look at wellbeing inequalities and the experiences of marginalised groups, demonstrating the connection between wellbeing and political struggle.
Description / Table of Contents:
1: Introduction to wellbeing research -- Part I: Approaching wellbeing -- 2: Commentary to Part I: Reanimating the radical possibilities of wellbeing -- 3: Towards a queer epistemological framework for wellbeing research -- 4: A Marxian approach to wellbeing: Human nature and use value -- 5: Developing qualitative, biographical research into happiness and wellbeing: A sociological perspective -- 6: Practicing wellbeing through community economies: An action research approach.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Practicing wellbeing -- 7: Commentary to Part II: A wellbeing lens in practice -- 8: Prisoners' rehabilitation and wellbeing: A psychosocial perspective -- 9: Gender and wellbeing in post-war Sri Lanka -- 10: Wellbeing and inclusion: A place for religion -- 11: Children experiencing happiness in the city -- 12: Housing inequalities and wellbeing: A critical analysis of narratives from stakeholders in Luxembourg -- 13: Woodlands and wellbeing: Evaluating the 'Actif Woods Wales' programme.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Where next for wellbeing? -- 14. Commentary to Part III: Wellbeing: A means for informed policy-making -- 15: Who benefits and who suffers from international migration? Global evidence from the science of happiness -- 16: Human wellbeing in environmental management -- 17: Budgeting for wellbeing -- 18: Subjective wellbeing and transformation -- Index.
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