In this week’s podcast, we speak to Niel Thin, a very recently retired senior lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at The University of Edinburgh. We cover the culture of victimhood, social wellbeing, gross national happiness, personal strategies and the potential consequences of a critical social justice movement on communal wellbeing.    

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Thin, N. (2020). A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing. (Elgar Research Agendas). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.  

ISBN (Electronic)9781788976466 

ISBN (Print)9781788976459  

Campbell, Bradley & Jason Manning. (2018) The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces and the New Culture Wars. Palgrave Macmillan  

ISBN (Electronic) 978-3-319-70329-9 

ISBN (Softcover) 978-3-319-70328-2  

Centre for Bhutan Studies (2018) Happiness: Transforming the Development Landscape.  Bhutan: Centre for Bhutan Studies https://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/happiness-transforming-the-development-landscape/  

Winterson, Jeanette (2012) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? London: Vintage https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Why_be_Happy_when_You_Could_be_Normal/I-RYAa22dV4C?hl=en&gbpv=0  

Lichter, A., Loffler, M., & Siegloch, S. (2021). The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany. Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(2), 741–789.  

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