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Extraordinary events and problematic areas
Other Titles: The negotiation of crises
Authors: Kountouri, Fani
Reviewer: Afouxenidis, Alexandros
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Abstract:
This chapter explores how certain events, whether unpredictable or even dramatic, become incorporated into the political agenda as problems requiring immediate regulation. Within this context, we examine how a natural disaster, such as wildfires, is established as a political issue, and how an economic matter, like a stock market crash, is transformed into a challenge of utmost social and political significance. Additionally, the chapter briefly presents what was termed the "food scandal" of 2008 — the introduction of contaminated sunflower oil into Greece. Three crises — environmental, food-related, and socio-economic — are analyzed according to an explanatory model. The chapter focuses on the dynamic process of the construction and reconstruction of crisis problems through interactions among political, media, and social discourses, as well as political and social practices. The manner in which we analyze emergency events is grounded in the theoretical and methodological prerequisites previously outlined in the first section. We refer to the processes of public problem construction and negotiation, drawing on the sociological tradition of public problem research based on the three theoretical and methodological approaches introduced earlier.
Linguistic Editors: Ananiadis, Dimitris
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4434
Bibliographic Reference: Kountouri, F. (2015). Extraordinary events and problematic areas [Chapter]. In Kountouri, F. 2015. Public problems on the political agenda: theoretical and empirical approaches [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4434
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Public problems on the political agenda: theoretical and empirical approaches
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions