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Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

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  • © 2020

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  • Offers a diverse set of perspectives on the globalized nature of moral panic and children across disciplinary and geographical lines
  • Addresses media's role in shaping cultural anxieties over children, with a focus on the globalized, digital world
  • Interrogates the role of neoliberal governance in shaping attitudes toward children, youth, and parenting

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Neoliberal Self-Governance, State Regulation and the ‘Child at Risk’

  2. Cultural Practices and Media Discourses of Childhood

  3. Public Anxieties about Children’s and Youth’s Sexual Health

  4. Anxious Parenting: Parental Concerns about Children’s Media Uses

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About this book

This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and youth – a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary perceptions of "the young." In fact, given how the disciplinary power of neoliberalism swiftly becomes a common conceptual currency across national and cultural borders, discussing the way in which neoliberal self-governance permeates the cultures of childhood and youth is even more pertinent. This is followed by research on media discourses of children and their cultural practices in Norway, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Serbia, Greece, and the US.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki

About the editors

Editors​Liza Tsaliki is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Children and the Politics of Sexuality: The Sexualization of Children Debate Revisited (Palgrave, 2016).

Despina Chronaki is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.



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