Quality of Life and Human Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1st ed. 2021 Prospects for Future Happiness Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteurs : Møller Valerie, Roberts Benjamin J.
This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the major milestones in political and economic development. It focuses on social indicators pointing to significant changes that have affected the health, education and wealth of sub-Saharan Africans and their outlook on the future since the wind of change blew through the region. With case studies and vignettes the book highlights how individual citizens across the 44 different countries of sub-Saharan Africa experience well-being and express their aspirations for the future. This book provides relevant material for practitioners and policy makers, including community and development workers, in non-governmental and other organizations in sub-Saharan Africancountries.
Part I: An introduction to Africa’s quest for happiness and well-being.- Chapter 1. Pinpointing Sub-Saharan Africa on the Globe.- Chapter 2. Documenting Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3. Looking Back in Time: Africa’s Changing Landscape over the Centuries.- Chapter 4. Traditional African Ideas of Achieving the ‘Good Life’.- Chapter 5. Africa at War and Peace.- Part II: Indicators and Drivers of Well-Being.- Chapter 6. Basic Needs and Well-Being.- Chapter 7. Good Governance and Well-Being.- Chapter 8. Future African Generations and Well-Being.- Chapter 9. Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Hope for the Future.- Part III: Towards the Rising Sun: Promoting Well-Being through Policy Reform and Practice.- Chapter 10. Well-Being and Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Interface.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
Benjamin Roberts is Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council’s Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division and coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Durban, South Africa. He helped develop the SASAS series in 2002 and has coordinated each annual round of surveying since its inception in 2003. His research interests and areas of expertise include attitudinal measurement and social change, subjective well-being and quality of life, poverty and inequality, and social cohesion. He co-edited the HSRC Press volumes South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices (2006), South African Social Attitudes: Reflections on the Age of Hope (2010), and the forthcoming Family Matters: Family cohesion, values and strengthening in South Africa. He was the lead author on a chapter on wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa for the 2015 Springer volume The Global Handbook of Wellbeing and Quality of Life, and in 2017 co-authored a similarly themed chapter in The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The untold history, edited by R.J. Estes and M.J. Sirgy. Most recently, he was one of the authors of the Africa-focused chapter appearing in the World Happiness Report 2017 Update.
Recent publications include Roberts, B., Gordon, S., Møller, V. & Struwig, J. (2015) Shadow of the Sun: The distribution of wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa. In Glatzer, W. et al (Eds.) The Global Handbook of Quality of Life. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer; and Roberts, B. (2014) Beliefs About Inequality and Redress Preferences in South Africa, Social Indicators Research, 118, 1167-90.
Valerie Møller is currently Professor Emeritus of Quality of Life Studies in the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. A sociologist by training, she earned her PhD from the Univers
Presents an overview of the major milestones achieved in the region in political and economic development HIghlights the significant changes that have affected the health, education and wealth of Sub-Saharan Africans Introduces happiness as the new buzzword in Africa
Date de parution : 02-2022
Ouvrage de 190 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 02-2021
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