Description
Book SynopsisThe book explores what characterises a 'good life' and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Well-being's re-proportioning of social thought by Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Part I: Distributive values
1. The impossibility of wellbeing: development language and the pathologisation of Nepal by Ian Harper and Bryan Maddox
2. Good ways and bad ways: transformations of law and mining in Papua New Guinea1 by Eric Hirsch
Part II. Persons
3. Well-being: in whose opinion, and who pays? by Wendy James
4. Primed for well-being: young people, diabetes and insulin pumps by Griet Scheldeman
5. On well-being, being well and well-becoming: on the move with hospital porters by Nigel Rapport
Part III: Proportionalities
6. Measuring--or practicing--well-being? by Michael Lambek
7. 'Realising the substance of their happiness': how anthropology forgot about homo gauisus by Neil Thin
8. The intension and extension of well-being: transformation in diaspora Jain understandings of non-violence by James Laidlaw
9. Well-being in anthropological balance: remarks on proportionality as political imagination by Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Index
