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'The Health Event’: everyday, affective politics of participation

Kraftl, P. and Horton, J. (2007) 'The Health Event’: everyday, affective politics of participation. Geoforum. 38(5), pp. 1012-1027. 0016-7185.

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Abstract: This paper is about a single event: a conference (A.K.A. ‘the health event’) held in the English East Midlands in July 2005, at which findings from a policy-led research project regarding young people’s health needs were fed back to research participants. The paper foregrounds some of the everyday work, happenings, emotions, conversations and materialities which were fundamentally constitutive of ‘the health event’ and, thus fundamentally constituted the moments of affirmative, politically-charged participation which could and did happen therein. Thus the paper bears witness to the sorts of practices, minutiae and highs and lows which are surely fundamentally constitutive of participation, policy and politics per se, but which (despite the growing visibility of nonrepresentational theories) are typically absent from salient accounts of participation, Children’s Geographies and Post-medical Geographies
Uncontrolled Keywords: Health event; nonrepresentational theories; health geographies; children’s geographies; policy; usefulness; participation
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ767 Children. Child development
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ793 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers
R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ550 Adolescent medicine. Adolescent health services
Creators: Kraftl, Peter and Horton, John
Publisher: Elsevier
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016)
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > The Centre for Children and Youth
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > Education, Children and Young People
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > Education, Children and Young People
Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences
Date: November 2007
Date Type: Publication
Page Range: pp. 1012-1027
Journal or Publication Title: Geoforum
Volume: 38
Number: 5
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.01.013
ISSN: 0016-7185
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/775

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