Sat, 24th, Jan, 2026: Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff, Asso. Professor of Public Policy, Uni of Sydney, ‘The Emotion of Shark Attacks’.
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Macca and Nevena are joined live on air by Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff, Asso. Professor of Public Policy, Uni of Sydney, ‘The Emotion of Shark Attacks’.
Dr. Chris Pepin-Neff is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Sydney in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, specializing in emotional public policymaking, LGBTQ politics, and the “politics of shark attacks”. They authored Flaws: Shark Bites and Emotional Public Policymaking and are known for research on reducing public fear of sharks.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-10976-9
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.”
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/chris-pepin-neff-sharkscaping-jaws-moral-panic-sharks/105471390
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