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The Place and Practices of Well-Being in Local Governance

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  • Sarah Atkinson
  • Kerry E Joyce
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The concept of well-being has become prominent within national policy goals in the UK since the end of the 1990s. However, the concept of well-being remains ill defined, an instability that is increasingly understood as problematic to policy making. We engage with this terminological instability through an exploration of how the concept of well-being is practised discursively in local governance and critically examine the place of the concept in local policy making. In contrast to the current enthusiasm to define and measure well-being, we argue that the conceptual instability has inherent value for local governance. The concept of well-being is practised through a number of potentially conflicting discourses, but it is exactly this conceptual instability that enables a local negotiation and combination of alternative policy frameworks for local place-shaping strategies. As such, well-being not only is an overarching goal of governance but also contributes to the dynamics of the policy process.

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  • Sarah Atkinson & Kerry E Joyce, 2011. "The Place and Practices of Well-Being in Local Governance," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 29(1), pages 133-148, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:29:y:2011:i:1:p:133-148
    DOI: 10.1068/c09200
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    1. Kangmennaang, Joseph & Elliott, Susan J., 2018. "Towards an integrated framework for understanding the links between inequalities and wellbeing of places in low and middle income countries," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 213(C), pages 45-53.

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