Culture and Well-Being - Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Political Ethics

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The book explores what characterises a 'good life' and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alberto Corsin (EDT) Jimenez
• Collaboration: Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Editeur), Jimenez Alberto Corsin (Editeur)
• Edition: University Of Michigan Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.01.2008
• EAN: 9780745326801
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2680-1
• Pages: 207
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Thème: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Human rights, civil rights