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Biographical Info

Joanna‘s research focuses on the ways in which subjectivity and ethical values inform changing understandings of health, wellbeing, political process and community organisation, and she is developing a new research agenda focusing on joy. Joanna is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and change in Thai monastic life (2010) and Making a Mindful Nation: Mental health and governance in the 21^st century (2023). She is the coeditor of An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange (2023), Mindfulness and Culture (2022), Unsettling Anthropologies of Care (2020), The State We’re In: Reflecting on Democracy’s Troubles (2016), Detachment: Essays on the limits of relational thinking (2015) and Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (2012).