Culture and Well-Being

Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Political Ethics

AvAlberto Corsin Jimenez,Alberto Corsin Jimenez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

The concept of well-being has emerged as a key category of social and political thought, especially in the fields of moral and political philosophy, development studies and economics. This book takes a critical look at the notion of well-being by examining what well-being means, or could mean, to people living in a number of different regions including Sudan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, India, Sierra Leone and the UK. The contributors take issue with some of the assumptions behind Western concepts of well-being. They explore what characterises a 'good life' and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism. The book makes a major contribution to social theory by presenting new analytical models that make sense of the changing shapes of people's life and ethical values.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-11-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745326801

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Alberto Corsin Jimenez is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of An Anthropological Trompe l'Oeil for a Common World (Berghahn, 2013) and editor of Culture and Well-Being (Pluto, 2007) and The Anthropology of Organisations (Routledge 2007).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsIntroductionWell-being's re-proportioning of social thought by Alberto Corsín JiménezPart I: Distributive values1. The impossibility of wellbeing: development language and the pathologisation of Nepal by Ian Harper and Bryan Maddox2. Good ways and bad ways: transformations of law and mining in Papua New Guinea1 by Eric HirschPart II. Persons3. Well-being: in whose opinion, and who pays? by Wendy James4. Primed for well-being: young people, diabetes and insulin pumps by Griet Scheldeman5. On well-being, being well and well-becoming: on the move with hospital porters by Nigel RapportPart III: Proportionalities6. Measuring--or practicing--well-being? by Michael Lambek7. 'Realising the substance of their happiness': how anthropology forgot about homo gauisus by Neil Thin8. The intension and extension of well-being: transformation in diaspora Jain understandings of non-violence by James Laidlaw9. Well-being in anthropological balance: remarks on proportionality as political imagination by Alberto Corsín JiménezIndex