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DIY Happiness Cultures of Self-help, the Transformational Citizen and New Civic Order

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  • Pramod K. Nayar

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The emotional dominant of well-being in contemporary cultures today,demands a transformational citizen. The transformational citizen is one who enhances and improves her/himself, feels/experiences a sense of well-being, and thereby contributes to cultural well-being as well. The discourse of well-being constructs the idea(l) of an autonomous individual who, having evaluated her/his strengths and weaknesses through a process of self-surveillance, proceeds to improve her/himself, and in the process sets new aspirations for her-/himself and others and acquires a cultural membership in a group of successful people. This essay attempts to map the shift in discourse from the care of the Self to the transformational citizen and finally the myth of a ‘new civic order’.

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  • Pramod K. Nayar, 2011. "DIY Happiness Cultures of Self-help, the Transformational Citizen and New Civic Order," Working Papers id:3482, eSocialSciences.
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