Cultures of Wellbeing: Method, Place, Policy

305 Pages·2016·2.887 MB·English

by  Sarah C. White, Chloe Blackmore (eds.)

Cultures of Wellbeing
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Cultures of Wellbeing
Method, Place, Policy
Editedby
Sarah C. White
ProfessorofInternationalDevelopmentandWellbeing,
UniversityofBath,UK
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Chloe Blackmore
Researcher,UniversityofBath,UK
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To my family of origin:
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Contents
ListofIllustrations ix
Preface xi
NotesonContributors xv
1 Introduction:TheManyFacesofWellbeing 1
SarahC.White
Part I MixedMethods
2 EnquiriesintoWellbeing:HowCouldQualitativeData
BeUsedtoImprovetheReliabilityofSurveyData? 47
LauraCamfield
3 MeasuringNationalWellbeing:WhatMatterstoYou?
WhatMatterstoWhom? 66
SusanOman
4 StayingWellinaSouthAfricanTownship:Storiesfrom
PublicHealthandSociology 95
EmerBrangan
5 EconomicsandSubjectivitiesofWellbeinginRuralZambia 118
SarahC.WhiteandVivianaRamirez
6 ‘TheWeightFallsonMyShoulders’:CloseRelationships
andWomen’sWellbeinginIndia 144
ShreyaJhaandSarahC.White
Part II QualitativeResearch
7 TheDynamicsofRelationalWellbeingintheContextof
MobilityinPeru 175
RebeccaHuovinenandChloeBlackmore
8 TensionsinConceptualisingPsychosocialWellbeingin
Angola:TheMarginalisationofReligionandSpirituality 198
CarolaEyber
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9 PictureThis:VisualExplorationsofWellbeingina
Landmine-ContaminatedLandscapeinCambodia 219
GabrielleDavies
10 AuthorisedVoicesintheConstructionofWellbeing
Discourses:AReflectiveEthnographicExperiencein
NorthernMexico 240
JuanLoera-González
11 HistoricalReconstructionandCulturalIdentityBuilding
asaLocalPathwayto‘LivingWell’amongstthePemonof
Venezuela 260
IokiñeRodríguez
Index 281
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Theconstructionofwellbeingknowledge 3
1.2 Plotofwellbeingapproachesinpublicpolicy 7
5.1 Innerwellbeing 122
6.1 Gulabi’sdomainscores,pivotgraph,2011and2013 159
9.1 Thehomeofoneofthevillagers 221
9.2 Cambodiannoodles 230
9.3 Tinofmoney 231
9.4 Ricefields 232
9.5 Goingtothefields 232
9.6 Theroadthroughthevillage 234
9.7 Cattle 235
11.1 LocationofCanaimaNationalPark 262
Tables
2.1 Focus-groupdatatoinformtaxonomyandselectionof
indicators 59
3.1 Question1:Whatthingsinlifemattertoyou?From
Questionnaire1 69
3.2 Asummaryofquestion1:Whatthingsinlifematter
mosttoyou?FromQuestionnaire2 70
3.3 AsummaryofQuestionnaire1fromtheONSMNW
debateconsultation:Tick-boxresponsescomparedto
‘Other’free-textfieldresponses 71
3.4 AsummaryofQuestionnaire2fromtheONSMNW
debateconsultation:Tick-boxresponsescomparedto
‘Other’free-textfieldresponses 72
3.5 Asummaryofcategoriesfromsecondarythematic
analysisoffree-textfieldusage 84
3.6 Asummaryofthemescodedfromsecondarythematic
analysisoffree-textfieldusagefromquestion1,
Questionnaire2 86
5.1 Itemsfromfactoranalysisthatmeasuredsixdomainsof
innerwellbeing 128
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