Cultures of Wellbeing : Method, Place, Policy
The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration, economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and indigenous identities
eBook, English, 2016
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016
1 online resource (248 pages) : online resource
9781137536457, 9781349557790, 1137536454, 134955779X
945800440
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1. Introduction: The Many Faces of Wellbeing; Sarah White
PART I: MIXED METHODS
2. Enquiries into Wellbeing: How Could Qualitative Data be Used to Improve the Reliability of Survey Data?; Laura Camfield
3. Measuring National Wellbeing: What Matters to You? What Matters to Whom?; Susan Oman
4. Staying well in a South African Township: Stories from Public Health and Sociology; Emer Brangan
5. Economics and Subjectivities of Wellbeing in Rural Zambia; Sarah White and Viviana Ramirez
6. 'The Weight Falls on my Shoulders': Close Relationships and Women's Wellbeing in India; Shreya Jha and Sarah White
PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
7. The Dynamics of Relational Wellbeing in the Context of Mobility in Peru; Rebecca Huovinen and Chloe Blackmore
8. Tensions in Conceptualising Psychosocial Wellbeing in Angola: The Marginalisation of Religion and Spirituality; Carola Eyber
9. Picture This: Visual Explorations of Wellbeing in a Landmine-contaminated Landscape in Cambodia; Gabrielle Davies
10. Authorised Voices in the Construction of Wellbeing: A Reflective Ethnographic Experience in Northern Mexico; Juan Loera-González
11. Historical Reconstruction and Cultural Identity Building as a Local Pathway to 'Living Well' amongst the Pemon of Venezuela; Iokiñe Rodriguez