Beyond Components of Wellbeing: The Effects of Relational and Situated Assemblage.

IF 1.3 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2013-01-01 DOI:10.1007/s11245-013-9164-0

Sarah Atkinson

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Abstract

Despite multiple axes of variation in defining wellbeing, the paper argues for the dominance of a 'components approach' in current research and practice. This approach builds on a well-established tradition within the social sciences of attending to categories whether for their identification, their value or their meanings and political resonance. The paper critiques the components approach and explores how to move beyond it towards conceptually integrating the various categories and dimensions through a relational and situated account of wellbeing. Drawing on more fluid social sciences, wellbeing is framed as an effect, dependent on the mobilisation of resources from everyday encounters with complex assemblages of people, things and places. Through such a framing, wellbeing can be conceived of as stable and amenable to change, as individual and collective and as subjective and objective. Policy interventions then need to attend to the relationalities of particular social and spatial contexts.

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超越幸福的组成部分：关系和情景组合的影响。

尽管在界定福祉方面存在多种差异，但本文认为 "组成部分方法 "在当前的研究和实践中占据主导地位。这种方法建立在社会科学的既定传统之上，即关注类别的识别、价值或意义和政治共鸣。本文对这一方法进行了批判，并探讨了如何超越这一方法，通过对福祉的关联性和情景描述，在概念上整合各种类别和维度。借鉴流动性更强的社会科学，福祉被界定为一种效应，取决于从与复杂的人、物和地点的日常接触中调动资源。通过这样的构思，可以将福祉视为稳定的和可改变的、个人的和集体的、主观的和客观的。因此，政策干预需要关注特定社会和空间环境的关系。

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TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY-

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3.10

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7.10%

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