Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justine Chambers (0000-0001-5882-3892, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 396-413 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2021.1968482 |
| OpenAlex | W3207989187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Between 2011 and 2020 Myanmar experienced significant social and political changes as a result of a series of reforms introduced by the former military junta. In this article I examine how the broadening of personal hopes and aspirations through new community-based English educational sites during this period influenced young people’s understandings of eudaimonic wellbeing. Teleological theories of eudaimonia often imply a degree of coherence in conceptions of the self, virtue and human flourishing. Drawing from recent work in anthropology, I argue that conflicting frameworks of virtue ethics provide collective meaning and help to orient everyday life for different people in distinctive ways. Through the lives of young Karen Buddhists in southeastern Myanmar, I show that there are complex and non-linear understandings of virtue that people draw upon in their deliberations about how to pursue possible eudaimonic futures
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eudaimonia · Flourishing · Meaning (existential) · Occupational science · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Teleology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Occupational Therapy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Intelligent Virtue
The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics
After Virtue
Cruel Optimism
Khmer Women on the Move
Happiness
Multiple Developments
Personifying Progress
Caught in the Middle
Imagining the Course of Life
Rethinking Land and Property in a “Transitioning” Myanmar
Introduction
The Subject of Virtue
The Method of Hope
Tradition in fragments
Enacting Morality on Shifting Moral Ground
Introduction
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |