Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvBeverley A. Searle,Jessica Pykett,Maria J. Alfaro-Simmonds

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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. Provocative commentaries from leading scholars plus chapters on original theoretical developments and research studies across diverse world regions reveal wellbeing research based on situated practices, social differences and specific cultural contexts. This Modern Guide assesses the influence and impact of wellbeing research on policy and practice across a range of sectors and spaces, including: wellbeing budgeting, nature-based interventions, urban design, environmental resource management, prisons, housing, international migration, and post-conflict situations.This will be a useful read for scholars of human geography, social policy, urban studies, anthropology, political science and environmental economics. Policy makers will also appreciate the suggestions for improvement to wellbeing policies and practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-15
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt0 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Modern Guides
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035309016

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Contents:Foreword xivKatherine Trebeck, Wellbeing Economy Alliance1 Introduction to wellbeing research 1Beverley A Searle, Jessica Pykett and Maria Jesus Alfaro-SimmondsPART I APPROACHING WELLBEING2 Commentary to Part I: reanimating the radical possibilitiesof wellbeing 23Sarah Atkinson3 Towards a queer epistemological framework for wellbeingresearch 29Julia Zielke4 A Marxian approach to wellbeing: human nature and use value 51David Watson5 Developing qualitative, biographical research intohappiness and wellbeing: a sociological perspective 68Mark Cieslik6 Practicing wellbeing through community economies: anaction research approach 84Thomas SJ Smith and Kelly DombroskiPART II PRACTICING WELLBEING7 Commentary to Part II: a wellbeing lens in practice 104Neil Thin8 Prisoners’ rehabilitation and wellbeing: a psychosocialperspective 110Fabio Tartarini9 Gender and wellbeing in post-war Sri Lanka 129Fazeeha Azmi10 Wellbeing and inclusion: a place for religion 148Laura Kapinga and Bettina Bock11 Children experiencing happiness in the city 164Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds12 Housing inequalities and wellbeing: a critical analysis ofnarratives from stakeholders in Luxembourg 184Magdalena Górczyńska-Angiulli, Elise Machline13 Woodlands and wellbeing: evaluating the ‘Actif WoodsWales’ programme 205Heli Gittins, Sophie Wynne-Jones and Val MorrisonPART III WHERE NEXT FOR WELLBEING?14 Commentary to Part III: wellbeing: a means for informedpolicy-making 227Susan J Elliott15 Who benefits and who suffers from internationalmigration? Global evidence from the science of happiness 232Martijn Hendriks16 Human wellbeing in environmental management 245Kelly Biedenweg and David J Trimbach17 Budgeting for wellbeing 266Arthur Grimes18 Subjective wellbeing and transformation 282Beverley A SearleIndex