Re-organising wellbeing: Contexts, critiques and contestations of dominant wellbeing narratives

Watson, David, Wallace, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7330-0114, Land, Christopher and Patey, Jane 2023. Re-organising wellbeing: Contexts, critiques and contestations of dominant wellbeing narratives. Organization 30 (3) , pp. 441-452. 10.1177/13505084231156267

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Abstract

Wellbeing has emerged as an important discourse of management and organisation. Practices of wellbeing are located in concrete organisational arrangements and shaped by power relations built upon embedded, intersecting inequalities and therefore require critical evaluation. Critical evaluation is essential if we are to reorganise wellbeing to move beyond critique and actively contest dominant wellbeing narratives in order to reshape the contexts in which wellbeing can be fulfilled. The COVID-19 pandemic under which this special issue took shape, provides various examples of how practices continue to be shaped by existing narratives of wellbeing. The pandemic also constituted a far-reaching shock that gave collective pause to consider to the extent to which work is really organised to realise wellbeing and opened up potential to think differently. The seven papers included in the special issue reveal the problematic and uneven way in which wellbeing is pursued and examine possibilities to imagine and realise more radical practices of wellbeing that can counter the way in which ill-being is produced by the organisation of labour.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1350-5084
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 April 2023
Date of Acceptance:	23 January 2023
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2024 11:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/158425

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