Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

“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

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Edited by Liza Tsaliki · Despina Chronaki

Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

Liza Tsaliki · Despina Chronaki Editors

Discourses of Anxiety over  Childhood and Youth across Cultures

Editors Liza Tsaliki Department of Communication and Media Studies School of Economics and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece

Despina Chronaki Department of Communication and Media Studies School of Economics and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece

ISBN 978-3-030-46435-6 ISBN 978-3-030-46436-3  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46436-3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), 22.4.1870 - 21.1.1924, Russian politician, half length, as a child, with his sister Olga, Uljanovsk, 1874. INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dafna Lemish for her valuable comments in reviewing this volume, as well as our editor at Palgrave Macmillan, Liam McLean, and our production editor at Springer, Sooryadeepth Jayakrishnan, for making sure that this project came into fruition.

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Contents

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Introduction: Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures 1 Liza Tsaliki and Despina Chronaki

Part I Neoliberal Self-Governance, State Regulation and the ‘Child at Risk’ 2

The UK ‘Video Nasties’ Campaign Revisited: Panics, Claims-Making, Risks, and Politics 29 Martin Barker

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Youth Hypersexualization Discourses in ­French-Speaking Quebec 51 Élisabeth Mercier

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Child Protection Anxieties and the Formation of UK Child We