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View article: Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach
Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach Open
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular [...]
View article: Exploring the Relational in Relational Wellbeing
Exploring the Relational in Relational Wellbeing Open
This paper explores the different ways that relationships and the relational figure in the integrative approach, relational wellbeing (RWB). These are (1) conceptualising persons as relational subjects; (2) relationships as the means throu…
View article: Updates in the chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder show the role of osteocytic proteins, a potential mechanism of the bone—Vascular paradox, a therapeutic target, and a biomarker
Updates in the chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder show the role of osteocytic proteins, a potential mechanism of the bone—Vascular paradox, a therapeutic target, and a biomarker Open
The chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) is a complex multi-component syndrome occurring during kidney disease and its progression. Here, we update progress in the components of the syndrome, and synthesize recent investi…
View article: Women and Children First: The Complexity of Societal Change in Dracula and NOS4A2
Women and Children First: The Complexity of Societal Change in Dracula and NOS4A2 Open
This article focuses on how a reading and interpretation of Dracula can inform the reading of NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. NOS4A2 is written as a reinterpretation of the vampire myth and draws heavily from Stoker’s classic novel. Charles Manx, the …
View article: Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing: Life histories and Self-Determination Theory in rural Zambia
Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing: Life histories and Self-Determination Theory in rural Zambia Open
What are the prospects for a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and methodologically plural approach to wellbeing? This question is addressed using Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a psychological theory based on quantitative empirical meth…
View article: Moralities of Wellbeing
Moralities of Wellbeing Open
This paper is a lightly edited transcript of Sarah's Inaugural Professorial Lecture on April 25, 2018. It draws on primary research in Zambia but also reflects on the promotion of wellbeing in the UK. There are three main points. 1. The ne…
View article: Tournament ABC analysis of the western Palaearctic population history of an oak gall wasp, <i>Synergus umbraculus</i>
Tournament ABC analysis of the western Palaearctic population history of an oak gall wasp, <i>Synergus umbraculus</i> Open
Approximate Bayesian computation ( ABC ) is a powerful and widely used approach in inference of population history. However, the computational effort required to discriminate among alternative historical scenarios often limits the set that…
View article: Economics, relationality and the good life in Chiawa, Zambia
Economics, relationality and the good life in Chiawa, Zambia Open
This chapter describes how the poverty of local livelihoods is only one part of the economy of Chiawa, Zambia. Substantively, it shows that Chiawa villagers do consider economic development to be a vital component of 'the good life', but t…
View article: Relational wellbeing: re-centring the politics of happiness, policy and the self
Relational wellbeing: re-centring the politics of happiness, policy and the self Open
The ubiquity of references to happiness and wellbeing indicates widespread anxiety that all may not be well, reflecting the erosion of the social in late capitalist modernity. The paper finds that, rather than helping to solve this problem…
View article: Patriarchal Investments: Marriage, Dowry and the Political Economy of Development in Bangladesh
Patriarchal Investments: Marriage, Dowry and the Political Economy of Development in Bangladesh Open
This article explores why dowry inflation persists in Bangladesh, despite the country being widely heralded as a development success, especially with regard to gender. The article asks three questions. Does rural Bangladesh show changing p…
View article: Beyond the grumpy rich man and the happy peasant: mixed methods and the impact of food security on subjective dimensions of wellbeing in India
Beyond the grumpy rich man and the happy peasant: mixed methods and the impact of food security on subjective dimensions of wellbeing in India Open
This paper has subsequently published in Oxford Development Studies in an updated and improved version and is available open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2015.1120278
View article: Cultures of Wellbeing
Cultures of Wellbeing Open
The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore
View article: Relational wellbeing: A theoretical and operational approach
Relational wellbeing: A theoretical and operational approach Open
Relational wellbeing is an emergent construct grounded in the interpretivist tradition in social science. It approaches people as subjects, and aims to understand the ways they see the world in as near to their own terms as possible. This …