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Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda (2007)
Journal Article
Fleuret, S., & Atkinson, S. (2007). Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda. New Zealand Geographer, 63(2), 106-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7939.2007.00093.x

This paper explores different conceptual and policy spaces of wellbeing. The increasing use of wellbeing in contemporary health debates affords geographers of health new arena in which to explore the processes that promote, remedy or regenerate healt... Read More about Wellbeing, health and geography: a critical review and research agenda.

Telling talking: discourse and practice in context (2007)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2007). Telling talking: discourse and practice in context. Critical Policy Studies, 1(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2007.9518518

The paper explores the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding the unevenness of policy implementation. This aim is addressed through three questions regarding the relationship of discourse to actors and places: Do discourses m... Read More about Telling talking: discourse and practice in context.