Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neoliberal governmentality

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Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs (2013, background): “Changes in well-being are increasingly seen as a more meaningful way of evaluating development, social progress and government policy than changes in economic output or GDP (ONS, 2012; Stiglitz, Sen, & Fitoussi, 2009), and a large industry of self-help books, courses and resorts that promise people ”
The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism: Mapping the Contours of Entrepreneurial Subjectivity (2016, background): “This literature makes a range of important contributions, but is frequently theoretical in perspective (Beradi, 2009; Davies, 2005; Hall and O’Shea, 2009; McNay, 2009), historical (Ehrenberg, 2010), or rests on textual readings (Binkley, 2011a; Bröckling, 2005).”
Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness (2014, background): “…and the freedom of all” (Richardson & Guignon, 2008, p. 618); a phenomenon that might be explained by the idea that pursuing happiness is bad for us because it weakens our critical capacities in a way that makes us less free to make our own value judgements (Ewen, 1976; Binkley 2011, p. 385).”