Policy problems, publics, and the power of definition: Competing discourses and the case of Alberta's free‐roaming horses

Kincaid, Adela Tesarek; Fletcher, Amber J.

doi:10.1111/cag.12373

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“…Our approach may provide insights into the drivers of policy activity for wildlife and for invasive species such as feral horses or invasive fish, both of which receive significant media attention, are conflict‐ridden, and impact wildlife and agriculture (Kincaid and Fletcher , Kokotovich and Andow ). Using our approach for existing policy areas such as these may improve policy maker understanding of the drivers and importance of different interest groups over time.…”

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Determinants of invasive species policy: Print media and agriculture determine U.S. invasive wild pig policy

2018

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Abstract. Conflicts between wildlife, invasive species, and agricultural producers are increasing.Although direct management actions taken to mitigate these conflicts remain controversial, most stakeholders agree that better policies are needed to balance socioeconomic considerations with invasive species management, wildlife conservation, and agriculture. However, the interaction between societal and biological drivers that influence human-invasive species-wildlife conflict mitigation policy is poorly understood. We identify factors influencing policy leading to the establishment of a new federal program to control invasive wild pigs (IWPs) in the United States. We fit generalized linear models relating frequency of congressional policy activity, such as congressional hearings and reports, to frequency of print newspaper media and percent of the U.S. agricultural industry co-occurring with IWPs for 29 yr preceding the establishment of the federal program in 2013. Our models explained 89% of the deviance in congressional policy activity indicating a strong linkage between congressional IWP policy activity and predictors representing the number of negative of newspaper articles, geographic distribution of print media, and percent of agricultural producers co-occurring with IWPs. These effects translated to 3.7% increase in the number of congressional policy actions for every additional five states with negative news media. Invasive wild pig congressional policy activity increased 6.7% for every additional 10 negative newspaper articles. Increases in co-occurrence of agriculture and IWPs had the largest effect; for every 1% increase in co-occurrence, there was a 41% increase in congressional policy activity. Invasive wild pig congressional policy activity that explicitly addressed livestock increased at nearly twice the rate of policy activity addressing crop agriculture. These results suggest that agriculture and media coverage may act as determinants for invasive species policy. Our approach may provide early insight into emerging policy areas enabling proactive policy development by agencies or early engagement by scientists to find solutions before the policy area becomes gridlocked. Our results can also support policy and program evaluation providing a means of determining if the implemented policies match the original policy determinants ensuring best alignment with public, environmental, and stakeholder interests.

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Determinants of invasive species policy: Print media and agriculture determine U.S. invasive wild pig policy

2018

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“…The third layer was used to rearrange/regroup the data into categories and subcategories (i.e., parent and child nodes, respectively, in NVivo 12) with a strong focus on Indigenous ways of knowing (i.e., spiritual and intuitive ways of knowing, Indigenous psychological concepts, etc.). The fourth layer focused on identifying linkages and relationships between Indigenous health-related theories (i.e., cultural connectedness) and to “tell the collective story.” The use of a situational analysis (mapping) technique (Clarke, 2005, 2012; Clarke, Friese, & Washburn, 2015; Kincaid & Fletcher, 2017) allowed for a blended Indigenous-qualitative approach to the analysis because of its visual ability to show connections and overlapping relationships. Situational mapping processes combined with insights from the more-than-human world were critical to connect categories of data into meaningful groups and reconnect the categories into a larger theoretical framework that explains the intersections between animals and holistic wellness from an Indigenous worldview.…”

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Strengthening Animal-Human Relationships as a Doorway to Indigenous Holistic Wellness

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One of the most devastating effects of colonization has been fragmented relations among humans and their more-than-human counterparts. Traditionally, Indigenous peoples positioned animals as equitable partners in interconnected human and more-than human networks, animated with spirit and the ability to act and communicate. Many Indigenous peoples continue to regard animals as sacred and utilize the gifts that they bestow in traditional healing settings. Indigenous understandings of interwoven and reciprocal social networks of human and more-than-human relations must be restored and supported in contemporary health settings in order to “do no further harm” and facilitate Indigenous peoples' healing journeys. Reconciliation across Western and Indigenous contexts requires learning to work together with the more-than-human world and developing ethical spaces for health research in which holistic wellness is appreciated and understood in the context of all our relations. In order to help (re)connect and strengthen human relations with the more-than-human world, a culturally adapted and locally refined animal-human relationship workshop was delivered in a rural Saskatchewan First Nation community where traditional Elders, adults, and youth participants shared stories about the role of animals for their healing and holistic wellness trajectories. The results revealed that animal-human relationships are physical and spiritual in nature, with both domestic and wild animals playing various important person roles in the lives of community members; these person roles are not metaphorical but rather assume all the sentience and agency that the term person implies. The findings have clear practical and policy implications for health services, education, environmental sustainability, and bioresource management.

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Diversity and Inclusion Across Gender and Geography

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Policy problems, publics, and the power of definition: Competing discourses and the case of Alberta's free‐roaming horses

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Determinants of invasive species policy: Print media and agriculture determine U.S. invasive wild pig policy

Determinants of invasive species policy: Print media and agriculture determine U.S. invasive wild pig policy

Strengthening Animal-Human Relationships as a Doorway to Indigenous Holistic Wellness

Diversity and Inclusion Across Gender and Geography

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