Development is something we all aspire to, but also readily criticize for failing to live up to our hopes of sustained improvement in human wellbeing. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict. A mix of ethnographic and questionnaire data from seven poor urban and rural communities straddling the Andes is used to describe and analyze local and global interpretations of their inhabitants’ pursuit of wellbeing.
Author(s): James Copestake
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Foreword and Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Introduction and Overview......Page 18
2 Resources, Conflict, and Social Identity in Context......Page 48
3 Subjective Wellbeing: An Alternative Approach......Page 78
4 Economic Welfare, Poverty, and Subjective Wellbeing......Page 120
5 Wellbeing and Migration......Page 138
6 Wellbeing and Institutions......Page 170
7 Reproducing Unequal Security: Peru as a Wellbeing Regime......Page 202
8 Conclusions and Implications for Development Policy and Practice......Page 228
9 Implications for Wellbeing Research and Theory......Page 248
References......Page 260
D......Page 282
I......Page 283
P......Page 284
V......Page 285
W......Page 286
