J Allister Mcgregor
Biographic Data
| ID | 256218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Allister Mcgregor |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Allister |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgregor |
| SIGNATURE | MCGREGOR J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5839-002X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sustainable care
The term ‘care crisis’ is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its practicality with evidence of negative outcomes for those who provide care. We find evidence of substantial material and relational wellbeing failures for family carers and for care workers, while there has been little interest in carers’ views of their ability to live the …
Inclusive growth
The two decades either side of the global financial crisis have seen a remarkable surge and an equally remarkable reaction to global inequalities. This has played some part in fuelling the recent populist backlash against globalisation. In response, many global institutions and some national governments have embraced the concept of inclusive growth – proposing a policy agenda designed to share the benefits of economic growth and development more …
Wellbeing, Resilience and Sustainability
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢s ability to respond adequately to shocks and stressors. One of our hypotheses is that resilience does not simply reflect the expected effects of quantifiable factors such as level of assets, or even less quantifiable social processes such as people⬢s experience, but is also determined by more subjective dime…
Transforming Social Protection
Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Northeast and Southern Thailand
Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing
Reimagining Development through the Crisis Watch Initiative
This article reflects on the experience of the Crisis Watch initiative. This established a network of organisations and individuals who were involved in monitoring and acting on the ongoing effects of the 2008 financial crisis at the grassroots level. It provided a basis for understanding the ongoing human impacts of crisis and for sharing lessons on how to generate evidence quickly for policy consideration. The interplay between the financial cr…
Introduction
The major global crises of the past four years – financial, fuel, food, climate – have collectively had a dramatic impact on people's lives and livelihoods. Have they also had a large impact on core ideas underlying mainstream development? Drawing on a number of Reimagining Development case studies and on a much wider literature, this article examines the impacts of the crises on lives and livelihoods and also on core development ideas. First the…
Introduction
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics and practitioners who understand social protection to be more than a palliative agenda for alleviating poverty and vulnerability, believing instead that social protection should be fundamentally interested in realising economic…
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Social Protection
The current global financial crisis will have adverse effects on poor people in developing countries in both the short- and long-term. While the complexity of this crisis makes its path difficult to predict, recent advances in social protection thinking and practice provide a body of experience for developing countries and development agencies to draw upon in responding to the crisis. Recognising that the crisis will produce pressures on national…
Crossing the Zambezi
This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers. This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of150 years of conflict over the chang…
Validation of the WeDQoL-Goals-Thailand Measure
Wellbeing in Developing Countries
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not def…
Researching Well-Being
This article explores the links between conceptions of well-being, the way these are operationalized in empirical research, the knowledge produced and the policy process. The issues researched - poverty, inequality and subjective well-being - are in one sense universal and as such a focus of concerted global policy attention. Yet for people in developing countries around the world they are also a local reality. The argument here is that in resear…
Global Social Policy Forum
Civil society, international donors and poverty in Bangladesh
The recent donor emphasis on building civil society in poor countries assumes that such support will benefit the poorest sections of these societies. It therefore presumes to be readily connected to the international agency goal of poverty eradication. Unfortunately, most foreign donors define civil society using a Western liberal framework, which in many development contexts understates both configurations of power within civil society and also …
Surviving and Thriving
Special issue on Mozambique
James Midgley, Social Development
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢s ability to respond adequately to shocks and stressors. One of our hypotheses is that resilience does not simply reflect the expected effects of quantifiable factors such as level of assets, or even less quantifiable social processes such as people⬢s experience, but is also determined by more subjective dime…
Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing
Transforming Social Protection
Validation of the WeDQoL-Goals-Thailand Measure
Researching Well-Being
This article explores the links between conceptions of well-being, the way these are operationalized in empirical research, the knowledge produced and the policy process. The issues researched - poverty, inequality and subjective well-being - are in one sense universal and as such a focus of concerted global policy attention. Yet for people in developing countries around the world they are also a local reality. The argument here is that in resear…
Civil society, international donors and poverty in Bangladesh
The recent donor emphasis on building civil society in poor countries assumes that such support will benefit the poorest sections of these societies. It therefore presumes to be readily connected to the international agency goal of poverty eradication. Unfortunately, most foreign donors define civil society using a Western liberal framework, which in many development contexts understates both configurations of power within civil society and also …
Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Northeast and Southern Thailand
Inclusive growth
The two decades either side of the global financial crisis have seen a remarkable surge and an equally remarkable reaction to global inequalities. This has played some part in fuelling the recent populist backlash against globalisation. In response, many global institutions and some national governments have embraced the concept of inclusive growth – proposing a policy agenda designed to share the benefits of economic growth and development more …
Surviving and Thriving
Sustainable care
The term ‘care crisis’ is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its practicality with evidence of negative outcomes for those who provide care. We find evidence of substantial material and relational wellbeing failures for family carers and for care workers, while there has been little interest in carers’ views of their ability to live the …
Introduction
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics and practitioners who understand social protection to be more than a palliative agenda for alleviating poverty and vulnerability, believing instead that social protection should be fundamentally interested in realising economic…
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Social Protection
The current global financial crisis will have adverse effects on poor people in developing countries in both the short- and long-term. While the complexity of this crisis makes its path difficult to predict, recent advances in social protection thinking and practice provide a body of experience for developing countries and development agencies to draw upon in responding to the crisis. Recognising that the crisis will produce pressures on national…
Crossing the Zambezi
This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers. This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of150 years of conflict over the chang…
James Midgley, Social Development
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Special issue on Mozambique
Civil society, international donors and poverty in Bangladesh
The recent donor emphasis on building civil society in poor countries assumes that such support will benefit the poorest sections of these societies. It therefore presumes to be readily connected to the international agency goal of poverty eradication. Unfortunately, most foreign donors define civil society using a Western liberal framework, which in many development contexts understates both configurations of power within civil society and also …
Surviving and Thriving
Researching Well-Being
This article explores the links between conceptions of well-being, the way these are operationalized in empirical research, the knowledge produced and the policy process. The issues researched - poverty, inequality and subjective well-being - are in one sense universal and as such a focus of concerted global policy attention. Yet for people in developing countries around the world they are also a local reality. The argument here is that in resear…
Global Social Policy Forum
Wellbeing in Developing Countries
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not def…
Social Protection
The current global financial crisis will have adverse effects on poor people in developing countries in both the short- and long-term. While the complexity of this crisis makes its path difficult to predict, recent advances in social protection thinking and practice provide a body of experience for developing countries and development agencies to draw upon in responding to the crisis. Recognising that the crisis will produce pressures on national…
Crossing the Zambezi
This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers. This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of150 years of conflict over the chang…
Validation of the WeDQoL-Goals-Thailand Measure
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psycholog…
Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing
Reimagining Development through the Crisis Watch Initiative
This article reflects on the experience of the Crisis Watch initiative. This established a network of organisations and individuals who were involved in monitoring and acting on the ongoing effects of the 2008 financial crisis at the grassroots level. It provided a basis for understanding the ongoing human impacts of crisis and for sharing lessons on how to generate evidence quickly for policy consideration. The interplay between the financial cr…
Introduction
The major global crises of the past four years – financial, fuel, food, climate – have collectively had a dramatic impact on people's lives and livelihoods. Have they also had a large impact on core ideas underlying mainstream development? Drawing on a number of Reimagining Development case studies and on a much wider literature, this article examines the impacts of the crises on lives and livelihoods and also on core development ideas. First the…
Introduction
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from a conference hosted by the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK, in April 2011. The conference brought together academics and practitioners who understand social protection to be more than a palliative agenda for alleviating poverty and vulnerability, believing instead that social protection should be fundamentally interested in realising economic…
Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Northeast and Southern Thailand
Transforming Social Protection
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢s ability to respond adequately to shocks and stressors. One of our hypotheses is that resilience does not simply reflect the expected effects of quantifiable factors such as level of assets, or even less quantifiable social processes such as people⬢s experience, but is also determined by more subjective dime…
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Wellbeing, Resilience and Sustainability
Inclusive growth
The two decades either side of the global financial crisis have seen a remarkable surge and an equally remarkable reaction to global inequalities. This has played some part in fuelling the recent populist backlash against globalisation. In response, many global institutions and some national governments have embraced the concept of inclusive growth – proposing a policy agenda designed to share the benefits of economic growth and development more …
Sustainable care
The term ‘care crisis’ is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its practicality with evidence of negative outcomes for those who provide care. We find evidence of substantial material and relational wellbeing failures for family carers and for care workers, while there has been little interest in carers’ views of their ability to live the …
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Livelihood (7 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Business (6 works)