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Beyond components of wellbeing: the effects of relational and situated assemblage

Atkinson, S.

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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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Atkinson, S. (2013). Beyond components of wellbeing: the effects of relational and situated assemblage. Topoi, 32(2), 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9164-0

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2013
Deposit Date Jun 5, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Topoi
Print ISSN 0167-7411
Electronic ISSN 1572-8749
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 137-144
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9164-0

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