#10258. “No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy

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Abstract:
The 20XX outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in New Zealand deeply impacted rural communities, particularly cattle farmers. In 20XX, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) implemented an eradication programme that involved herd testing, stock culls, restriction of stock movements, decontamination of affected farms, and compensation to farmers for losses associated with the eradication programme. New Zealand news media reported widely on the emotional trauma experienced by affected farmers and MPI was criticised for poor management of the outbreak. We interviewed nineteen farmers and farming couples affected by M. bovis in Southern New Zealand to gain insight into their experiences of the outbreak. In this paper, we present the findings pertaining to one dominant thematic: that of farmers interactions with the bureaucracy associated with the management of the outbreak.
Keywords:
Bureaucracy; Habermasian lifeworld/system; Mycoplasma bovis; New Zealand

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