Global Developments, Markets, and Well-being

The relationship among global development, markets, and well-being is an important theoretical and methodologicalassociation to address and analyze theoretical ways of ‘value framing and talking’ among experts, institutions, and people.These relations may take the forms of interfaces, dislocations, and disjunctions, which are expressed under the notion of ‘new materialities’, encompassing the encounter of social and biological sciences. Main social concerns still are civic manifesta-tions, knowledge encounters and policy dilemmas present on contemporary global modernities. This interrelatedness of concepts, ethnography studies, and imagined spaces represents a cosmopolitan configuration that focus on the reflexivity of development studies and direct us to critically reconsider dualistic ways of thinking about the world. Today actors involve themselves arduous laboring of becoming engaged in development processes through social action to organize and materialize their meaning, values, and new subjectivities, as an expectation of becoming 'new' social actors. This orientation reaches the core of anthropology of development endeavor