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Welfare policies and the ideas of well-being are linked with the ideas of good life. However, the meaning of good life, i.e. what is considered as good life gets its meanings contextually. This means that we need to study the ideas of good life in time. The ideas of good life express social and political values and they are articulated in particular terms in particular time and place. The changing ideas of welfare and the ideas of changing approaches on welfare, well-being and knowledge production related to them have been discussed widely in international and Finnish research contexts. This volume is the second and last part of publications which stem from the 20th Anniversary Seminar of the Research Unit on Disability at University of Eastern Finland. It offers a multivoiced collection of research discussions from research in the fields of welfare and inclusion.

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Juhani Laurinkari ist Ökonom und Soziologe. Universitätsstudien in Helsinki und in Wien. Professor im Institut für Sozialpolitik an der Universität Ostfinnlands Campus Kuopio. 2010-2011 Dekan der Fakultät für Soziologie. 2010 Mitglied der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Lehrtätigkeit an mehreren deutschen und osteuropäischen Universitäten und Hochschulen. Engagierter Forscher unter anderem in den Fachbereichen Genossenschaftswesen, Wohlstandsökonomie, Gesundheitsökonomie. Seine Publikationen umfassen eine breite Skala dieser Thematik.

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