Women, migration and well-being: building epistemological resilience through ontologies of wholeness and relationship

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Williams, Lewis and Hall, Laura. 2014. "Women, migration and well-being: building epistemological resilience through ontologies of wholeness and relationship ." Global Change, Peace and Security. 26 (2), pp. 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2014.881335
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Women, migration and well-being: building epistemological resilience through ontologies of wholeness and relationship

ERA Journal ID36281
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsWilliams, Lewis (Author) and Hall, Laura (Author)
Journal TitleGlobal Change, Peace and Security
Journal Citation26 (2), pp. 211-221
Number of Pages11
Year2014
Place of PublicationAbingdon, Oxon. United Kingdom
ISSN1478-1158
1478-1166
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2014.881335
Abstract

This paper offers some reflections on the contextual issues and approach to a social action research initiative, the Ecology of Well-being Project (EWBP), active in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand, which seeks to address psycho-spiritual well-being among these communities. Specifically, it focuses on building epistemological resilience among these groups and, by extension, society at large, through adopting an Indigenous Life-World approach. This worldview
refers to an experience of reality that includes the material and discursive nature of human interaction, but significantly sees this as underpinned by a much deeper metaphysical ecology that views all living beings – animate and in the Western sense inanimate – as being energetically
connected.

Keywordsspirituality; community; human ecology
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020440107. Social and cultural anthropology
470210. Globalisation and culture
500304. Environmental philosophy
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

Byline AffiliationsSchool of Health, Nursing and Midwifery
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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