Overview
- Uniquely brings together three currently popular concepts – wellbeing, resilience and sustainability
- Describes this as a new trinity of governance
- Connects the argument to the recalibration of governance after the financial crisis
Part of the book series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy (SPERIRP)
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Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking. This book is unique in bringing the three concepts together as representing a new trinity of governance. Here we introduce some of the commonalities between the ideas, particularly their concern with distinctive human capacities that shape who we are and that imply a particular relationship to our wider social and natural environments. The book explains what is distinctive about the three ideas and why they are currently popular. In particular, we are concerned with how these ideas contribute to governance ‘after the crisis’, and how questions of social, political and economic uncertainty influence the ways in which these main arguments are developed. The book will appeal to those studying these ideas, how they apply to politics, political economy and governance, and to the wider public and policy-makers in these fields.
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Keywords
- wellbeing
- resilience
- sustainability
- governance
- crisis
- social capital
- measurement
- governmentality
- neo-liberalism
- disasters
- anthropocene
- environmental crisis
- social transformation
- systems
- mainstream policy approaches
- human capacities
- uncertainty
- policy narratives
- measuring wellbeing
- 2008 financial crisis
Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jonathan Joseph is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Bristol, UK. He was previously a professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Previous books include Varieties of Resilience: Studies in Governmentality and The Social in the Global: Social Theory, Governmentality and Global Politics. His current work looks at resilience, global governance and International Relations theory
J. Allister McGregor is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was Director of the UK ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) and was co-author/editor of Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research. He has written extensively on a social conception of wellbeing for academic and policy audiences.
J. Allister McGregor is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was Director of the UK ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries (WeD) and was co-author/editor of Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research. He has written extensively on a social conception of wellbeing for academic and policy audiences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wellbeing, Resilience and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: The New Trinity of Governance
Authors: Jonathan Joseph, J. Allister McGregor
Series Title: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32307-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32306-6Published: 02 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32307-3Published: 20 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3394
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 150
Topics: Public Policy, International Political Economy, Governance and Government, Political Theory, Financial Crises, Development and Sustainability