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Happiness and Global Justice: Contrasts,Convergences,Overlaps,and Complementarities of the World Social Forum and the Gross National Happiness Movements
This article examines two global responses to the failures of neoliberalism. The first, the World Social Forum, is a process born out of the “global justice movement.” The other, the Gross National Happiness movement, is endogenous to Asia, but is beginning to influence intellectuals, NGOs, and policymakers worldwide. These movements attempt to reformulate neoliberalism and the trajectory of modern capitalist development as a whole. Although they are interconnected networks, they contrast in terms of their goals, focus, and origins. Nonetheless, they converge at important points and may help construct an alternative to neoliberalism. The Gross National Happiness movement is of particular interest to the sociological study of emotions and social movements. Rather than positioning emotion as a driver or sustainer of social movement activity, or as a result of movement participation, the Gross National Happiness Movement frames emotion as the goal of the public policies around which it mobilizes.
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