MACMILLAN Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

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. From the Back Cover “In an age of heightened anxiety over children’s digital media practices, this book offers a valuable collection of studies from various countries around the world that bring us a wide selection of approaches, concerns, methods, and voices of young people which are often absent in the public discourse. From sexuality, crime, and stranger-anxiety, to gaming and quantification of babies, this book provides significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the key moral panic debates and scholarship.” --Dafna Lemish, Rutgers University, UKThis volume interrogates public debates about children and media across cultures, while taking fully into account the emotional baggage that accompanies the notion of moral panics. Contributors explore the social construction of discourses of anxiety surrounding childhood and youth, as well as the cultural histories that frame these discourses and their broader consequences in shaping public policy regarding children and young people. The collection is divided into four sections that respectively address neoliberal notions governing children and youth; research on media discourses of children and their cultural practices; anxieties related to sexual health and children’s consumption of popular culture; and parental concerns about children’s media practices. Liza Tsaliki is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the author of Children and the Politics of Sexuality: The Sexualization of Children Debate Revisited (Palgrave, 2016). Despina Chronaki (Dr) is an adjunct lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University.  About the Author 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.