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What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Mendes, R., Fidélis, T., Roebling, P., Teles, F., & Farrelly, M. (in press). What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2150668

Spatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature-based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy... Read More about What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis.

Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model (2021)
Book Chapter
Farrelly, M. (2021). Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model. In J. Manley, & P. B. Whyman (Eds.), The Preston model and community wealth building: Creating a socio-economic democracy for the future (79-92). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053736

The Preston Model of local economic development seeks to serve the material, social and health needs of the people of the city; it has met with widespread praise but critics have also called the model a form of unwelcome ‘protectionism’ that could no... Read More about Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model.

Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018 (2020)
Journal Article
Clark, J. D., Johnson, M., Fabowale, B., Farrelly, M., & Currow, D. (in press). Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018. Journal of Global Health Reports, 4, Article e2020042

Background The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has overseen international drug control since 1968 with the dual remit of restricting illicit production and use of controlled substances, whilst enabling access for clinical purposes. Two... Read More about Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018.

Analysing the representation of social actors: The conceptualisation of objects of governance (2019)
Book Chapter
Farrelly, M. (2019). Analysing the representation of social actors: The conceptualisation of objects of governance. In N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly, & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (147-168). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974967.00012

Analysis of how policy-makers and legislators represent social actors in texts can give valuable insight into their conceptualisation of objects of governance. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s methodological work in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the... Read More about Analysing the representation of social actors: The conceptualisation of objects of governance.

Rethinking intertextuality in CDA (2019)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2020). Rethinking intertextuality in CDA. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(4), 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1609538

Intertextuality–instances of texts linking to other texts (explicitly, implicitly, by referring to them or incorporating elements of them)–is a key concept with which CDA accounts for discursive elements in social relations of power and solidarity. H... Read More about Rethinking intertextuality in CDA.

Critical Discourse Analysis (2019)
Digital Artefact
Farrelly, M. (in press). Critical Discourse Analysis. [html]. London

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a social scientific theory and method for analyzing and critiquing the use of language and its contribution to forming and sustaining social practice and for analysis of how language can contribute to reproducing... Read More about Critical Discourse Analysis.

Introducing critical policy discourse analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Farrelly, M., Mulderrig, J., & Montessori, N. M. (2019). Introducing critical policy discourse analysis. In N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly, & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), Critical discourse policy analysis (1-22). London: Edward Elgar Publishing

Concluding remarks on critical policy discourse analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Farrelly, M., Montessori, N. M., & Mulderrig, J. (2019). Concluding remarks on critical policy discourse analysis. In N. Montesano Montessori, M. Farrelly, & J. Mulderrig (Eds.), Critical policy discourse analysis (264-270). London: Edward Elgar Publishing

Critical policy discourse analysis (2019)
Book
Montesano Montessori, N., Farrelly, M., & Mulderrig, J. (Eds.). (2019). Critical policy discourse analysis. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974967

© Nicolina Montesano Montessori, Michael Farrelly and Jane Mulderrig 2019. All rights reserved. This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions... Read More about Critical policy discourse analysis.

What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care? (2016)
Journal Article
Eyre, L., Farrelly, M., & Marshall, M. (2017). What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26(7), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005777

© 2017 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Better integration of care within the health sector and between health and social care is seen in many countries as an essential way of addressing the enduring problems of dwindling resources, changin... Read More about What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?.

Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government (2014)
Book
Farrelly, M. (2014). Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777948

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination wi... Read More about Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government.

Democratisation (2012)
Book Chapter
Seoane, E., & Farrelly, M. (2012). Democratisation. The Oxford handbook of the history of English (392 - 401). Oxford University Press

Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice (2009)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2009). Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice. Local government studies, 35(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930902992675

From the late 1990s the New Labour government implemented changes to local government and, within the context of a discourse of 'democratic renewal', also introduced neighbourhood-based participatory Forums. In this paper, a framework is set out for... Read More about Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice.

Global discourses of democracy and an English city (2008)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2008). Global discourses of democracy and an English city. Journal of Language and Politics, 7(3), 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.7.3.04far

In many contemporary polities, democracy is portrayed as a universal good, a democratic ideal appears to be spreading globally, its practice burgeoning; it seems to be appearing for the first time in some places and deepening in established democraci... Read More about Global discourses of democracy and an English city.