Torthaí cuardaigh - "moral panic"

“Moral panic” is a concept of growing importance in the social sciences. It has to do with the emotional reaction of the media, the public, and agents of social control to an emerging or anticipated social problem. My paper uses this concept to portray how Nigerians react to the incessant industrial...

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This paper deals with analysis of different levels of defining understanding, and dealing in general terms with trafficking in people problems in Serbia -from legal regulation and state organs that implement laws in practice, through domestic non-governmental and international organizations, to medi...

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Texto do Editorial na versão em inglês da Chamada Temática intitulada "VIOLÊNCIAS E EDUCAÇÃO: RESISTÊNCIAS E INVENTIVIDADES AO PÂNICO MORAL, AOS ATAQUES NAS MÍDIAS E AS AMEAÇAS ÀS ESCOLAS"

In Thailand's 2023 election, an appointed Senate controlled who became prime minister. To better understand the thinking of key actors in this critical moment, this paper examines the discourse of senators who publicly commented prior to the 13 July joint sitting of the Thai parliament, where e...

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This study aims to critically discuss factors associated with a recent dramatic rise in recorded mental health issues amongst UK youth. It draws from interviews and focus groups undertaken with young people, parents and professionals. We offer valuable new insights into significant issues affecting...

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The paper examines the interplay between media and the supernatural in contemporary horror cinema, focusing on the concept of haunted media—communication technologies that become conduits for metaphysical malevolence. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of Jeffrey Sconce’s media hauntology and J...

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This paper discusses the ways in which qualia deriving from color, shape, and other features are used to indicate evil and social ills in Japan, often through anthropomorphized characterizations as villains. Contemporary depictions of such villains echo themes of religious and folkloric historical...

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This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked...

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The staging of the 2006 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup brought together a wide ranging coalition of interests in fuelling a moral panic around sex trafficking in Europe. This coalition of diverse groups aimed to protect innocent third world women and prevent organi...

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Creole writer Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820–1894) registered the threat of anglophone dominance after the Civil War on behalf of a host of characters drawn from the geographies and ideologies in and around her home in Louisiana. Her little-known literary tales depict the period as a cultural and ling...

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Scholars working within different critical theory traditions are not unfamiliar with the experience of encountering dismissive representations of their work, including from parts of the academy that disavow the politics of academic research and knowledge production. However, the political project o...

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Children's problems have become familiar to the Finnish public since the media has portrayed many children as being 'at risk of exclusion' or involved in delinquent acts. The new public concern for children and childhood has been followed by interests in regulating and intervening...

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The 2023 New Zealand general election was marked by media narratives about a youth crime crisis, with special emphasis placed on ram raids and the Māori children and young people blamed for perpetrating them. We show that empirical data do not support the claim that youth crime is surging, and argue...

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