Reconceptualizing prosperity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20063879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Soper, Maria Emmelin (0000-0001-7512-6159) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 44-58 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315683850-4 |
| OpenAlex | W3199147940 |
| ISBN | 9781315683850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter focuses on the changing perceptions that are essential to furthering policies of sustainable welfare, a theme that it pursues within two related frames of thinking. It explores the revised ideas of progress, prosperity and development that would be involved in a transition to a degrowth economic and political order. The chapter draws attention to the health hazards associated with Western affluence itself and the negative impact in that respect of the modernized conception of the good life. Economic modernization brings its own health hazards, and the lifestyle promoted by consumer culture and its model of development is by no means an uncomplicated blessing in respect of physical and mental well-being. Likewise in the area of gender relations and sexuality, people have acknowledged the key role of modernization as a vehicle of more enlightened attitudes while seeking to qualify the view that these can today only be carried on the back of economic development and its shopping mall culture
Political science · Prosperity · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |