Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Figures and Tables

pp v-v

Notes on Authors

pp vi-viii

1 - Introduction: Developing Qualitative Research into Happiness and Wellbeing

pp 1-18

Part I - Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Theories, Debates and Issues

pp 19-20

2 - Living Well Together: On Happiness, Social Goods and Genuinely Progressive Sociology

pp 21-46

3 - Happiness as an Affective Practice: Self, Suffering and Biography

pp 47-68

4 - Personal Happiness, Social Unhappiness: Understanding the Complexity of Individual Happiness Accounts

pp 69-90

Part II - Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Communities, Biographies and Identities

pp 91-92

5 - Developing a Biographical Approach to Happiness and Wellbeing

pp 93-112

6 - Considering the Body in Happiness Research

pp 113-132

7 - How Cultural Heritage can Contribute to Community Development and Wellbeing

pp 133-154

8 - On Post-traumatic Growth and ‘Choosing’ to be Happy: Stories of Positive Change from African Refugees and Asylum Seekers

pp 155-174

9 - Using Social Wellbeing to Inform Regeneration Strategies in a Former Colliery Town in Northern England

pp 175-196

Part III - Qualitative Research into Happiness/Wellbeing: Methodological Innovations

pp 197-198

10 - A Board Game Approach to Studying the Multidimensionality of Life Satisfaction

pp 199-218

11 - ‘Show Me What Makes You Happy at Work’: Visualizing Happiness in the Workplace

pp 219-240

Index

pp 241-249