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GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING RESEARCH GROUP CFP RGS-IBG 2018: Geographies of happiness This session invites papers which consider landscapes of happiness and ‘subjective’ wellbeing, alongside those which are interested in quality of life and ‘objective’ wellbeing indicators, and experiential or embodied approaches to researching happiness and emotions more broadly. New ways of measuring, mapping and managing happiness and subjective wellbeing are re-shaping how emotions are defined at a range of scales. Global happiness economics indexes provide an alternative to GDP as a measure of a nation’s progress (Helliwell et al. 2017), with countries increasingly investing in measures to move upwards in these league tables. Happy cities experiments and innovations are setting out new forms of public, private and community partnership to gauge the emotional ‘pulse’ of a city (Hiscock et al. 2016), and mobile and biosensing technologies are being used to elicit real-time and spatially referenced data on embodied and self-reported happiness (MacKerron and Mourato, 2013; Resch et al, 2015). Questions remain as to how particular conceptualisations of happiness have come to dominate public policy, international and commercial discourses, and how alternative approaches to wellbeing inequalities, community development and place-based wellbeing infrastructures might be useful in rethinking the spatial politics of happiness (Atkinson, 2013; Scott, 2015; White, 2017; Smith and Reid, 2017). We are particularly interested, therefore, in the links between political geographies of emotions, behavioural public policy, and geographies of health and wellbeing. Papers might address some of the following topics: Quantitative and/or qualitative measurement of happiness Mapping, biosensing and technological methods to measure happiness Relational and situated approaches to wellbeing Political geographies of emotions Conceptualising urban emotions Embodied and emotional responses to urban living Global policy discourses on emotional governance Wellbeing inequalities, spatial variations and social difference Happy cities initiatives

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GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING RESEARCH GROUP

CFP RGS-IBG 2018: Geographies of happiness

This session invites papers which consider landscapes of happiness and ‘subjective’ wellbeing, alongside those which are interested in quality of life and ‘objective’ wellbeing indicators, and experiential or embodied approaches to researching happiness and emotions more broadly.

New ways of measuring, mapping and managing happiness and subjective wellbeing are re-shaping how emotions are defined at a range of scales. Global happiness economics indexes provide an alternative to GDP as a measure of a nation’s progress (Helliwell et al. 2017), with countries increasingly investing in measures to move upwards in these league tables. Happy cities experiments and innovations are setting out new forms of public, private and community partnership to gauge the emotional ‘pulse’ of a city (Hiscock et al. 2016), and mobile and biosensing technologies are being used to elicit real-time and spatially referenced data on embodied and self-reported happiness (MacKerron and Mourato, 2013; Resch et al, 2015).

Questions remain as to how particular conceptualisations of happiness have come to dominate public policy, international and commercial discourses, and how alternative approaches to wellbeing inequalities, community development and place-based wellbeing infrastructures might be useful in rethinking the spatial politics of happiness (Atkinson, 2013; Scott, 2015; White, 2017; Smith and Reid, 2017). We are particularly interested, therefore, in the links between political geographies of emotions, behavioural public policy, and geographies of health and wellbeing.

Papers might address some of the following topics:

Quantitative and/or qualitative measurement of happiness Mapping, biosensing and technological methods to measure happiness Relational and situated approaches to wellbeing Political geographies of emotions Conceptualising urban emotions Embodied and emotional responses to urban living Global policy discourses on emotional governance Wellbeing inequalities, spatial variations and social difference Happy cities initiatives Combinations of quality of life, liveability and subjective or personal wellbeing studies Wellbeing differences across the lifecourse Interactions between individual and societal wellbeing Social and urban contexts and collective wellbeing

The conference will take place at Cardiff University from Tues 28th to Friday 31st August 2018. The conference theme is 'Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography'.

Please send submissions (titles, abstracts (250 words) and author institutional details) to Maria Alfaro Munoz [email protected] and Jessica Pykett [email protected] by 31st January