A modern guide to wellbeing research / edited by Beverley A. Searle, Jessica Pykett and Maria Jesus Alfaro-Simmonds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Pykett, Jessica, editor.

Searle, Beverley A., editor.

Alfaro-Simmonds, Maria Jesus, editor.

Series:

Elgar Modern Guides

Elgar modern guides series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being--Research.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78990-016-6

OCLC:

1259321814