PUBlic Professor Series | Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism

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Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Event Location: Lethbridge Lodge, 320 Scenic Dr S, Lethbridge, AB

FREE. Everyone welcome. No RSVP required. Seating is limited, however, so arrive early!

Light appetizers and a cash bar will be available.

Join anthropology professor, Dr. Catherine Kingfisher, as she explores Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism.

In recent decades, an increasing interest in happiness and wellbeing has come to permeate scholarly, governmental, and popular imaginaries and practices, signalling a paradigm shift in orientation to work on society and work on the self. Driven in part by the emergent sub-disciplines of positive psychology and happiness economics, these new engagements with happiness, marked by a radically individualistic perspective, both reflect and buttress neoliberal forms of governance. Collective housing communities represent a challenge to this dominant, EuroAmerican orientation by locating well-being, at least in part, in the social.

My research on two urban collective housing communities – Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and, Quayside Village, in Vancouver, will 1) place into relief the cultural assumptions and forms of governance at the foundations of dominant EuroAmerican approaches; 2) highlight alternative models of wellbeing that provide potential, practical responses to problems associated with the individualizing, fragmenting, and isolating aspects of neoliberal projects of governance; and, 3) explore governmentalities of utopia as method. Learn more.

With special thanks to our talk sponsor:

Owen G. Holmes Lectures

 

Room or Area: 
Lethbridge Lodge

FREE. Everyone welcome. No RSVP required. Seating is limited, however, so arrive early!


Contact:

Catharine Reader | catharine.reader@uleth.ca | (403) 382-7154 | uleth.ca/artsci/public-professor