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Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Housing, Cooperative --- Lifestyles. --- Life style --- Life styles --- Styles, Life --- Human behavior --- Manners and customs --- Co-housing --- Co-ops (Housing) --- Cohousing --- Cooperative housing --- Housing cooperatives --- Mutual housing --- Common interest ownership communities --- Cooperation --- Communal living --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Applied Anthropology, Urban Studies, Sociology.

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An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power struggles. All points of engagement with policy ar

Public welfare --- Public welfare --- Social service --- Social service --- New Zealand --- Alberta --- Social policy. --- Social policy.