Flaws: Shark Bites and Emotional Public Policymaking

ISBN-13: 9783030109752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Christopher L. Pepin-Neff

Spis treści

Preface 

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Rise of Shark “Attack” Discourse

Chapter Three: Governing Emotion: How to Analyze Emotional Political Situations

Chapter Four: A Political Frenzy during Florida’s 2001 Summer of the Shark

Chapter Five: Bureaucratic Success and Cape Town’s Shark Spotters Program

Chapter Six: The Rogue Minister & Sydney’s Adoption of Aerial Patrols 

Chapter Seven: Reviewing a Framework for Emotions and Public Policy

Chapter Eight: Considering Sharks from a Post-Jaws Perspective

Bibliography 

O autorze

Christopher Pepin-Neff is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research looks at theories of the policy process by focusing on highly emotional issues such as LGBTQI politics and the "politics of shark attacks."

Blurb

This book examines the policymaking process following highly emotional events. It focuses on the politics of shark “attacks” by looking at policy responses to tragic shark bites in Florida, Australia, and South Africa. The book reviews these cases by identifying the flaws in the human-shark relationship, including the way sharks are portrayed as the enemy, the way shark bites are seen as intentional, and how policy responses appear to be based on public safety. Flaws identifies politicians as the true sharks of this story for their manipulation of tragic circumstances to protect their own interests. It argues that shark bites are ungovernable accidents of nature, and that we are “in the way, not on the menu.”

Christopher Pepin-Neff is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research looks at theories of the policy process by focusing on highly emotional issues such as LGBTQI politics and the "politics of shark attacks."