Cultures of Wellbeing: Method, Place, Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: The Many Faces of Wellbeing....Pages 1-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Enquiries into Wellbeing: How Could Qualitative Data Be Used to Improve the Reliability of Survey Data?....Pages 47-65
Measuring National Wellbeing: What Matters to You? What Matters to Whom?....Pages 66-94
Staying Well in a South African Township: Stories from Public Health and Sociology....Pages 95-117
Economics and Subjectivities of Wellbeing in Rural Zambia....Pages 118-143
‘The Weight Falls on My Shoulders’: Close Relationships and Women’s Wellbeing in India....Pages 144-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
The Dynamics of Relational Wellbeing in the Context of Mobility in Peru....Pages 175-197
Tensions in Conceptualising Psychosocial Wellbeing in Angola: The Marginalisation of Religion and Spirituality....Pages 198-218
Picture This: Visual Explorations of Wellbeing in a Landmine-Contaminated Landscape in Cambodia....Pages 219-239
Authorised Voices in the Construction of Wellbeing Discourses: A Reflective Ethnographic Experience in Northern Mexico....Pages 240-259
Historical Reconstruction and Cultural Identity Building as a Local Pathway to ‘Living Well’ amongst the Pemon of Venezuela....Pages 260-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-290