Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

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.

• 1. Introduction: Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures.- 2. The UK ‘Video Nasties’ Campaign revisited: panics, claims-making, risks, and politics.- 3. Youth Hypersexualization Discourses in French-Speaking Quebec.- 4. Child Protection Anxieties and the Formation of UK Child Welfare and Protection Practices.- 5. The Quantified Baby: Discourses of consumption.- 6. Responsible Girlhood and Healthy Anxieties in Britain: girls’ bodily learning in school, sport and peer cultures.- 7.  (De)Constructing Child-focused Media Panics and Fears: The Example of German-speaking countries.- 8. Free to Roam? Pokémon GO and childhood anxieties.- 9. Children’s Grasp of Crime Discourses in the City of Monterrey, Mexico.- 10. Risk, Anxiety and Fun in Safe Sex Promotion in Australia.- 11. National Contexts for the Risk of Harm Being Done to Children by Access to Online Sexual Content.- 12. Uncertain Abuse and Insider Credentials: Examining ambiguous cultural representations of childhood sexual abuse in the 2005 British comedy series ‘Nathan Barley’.- 13. Teenage Perspectives on Sexting and Pleasure in Italy: Going Beyond the Concept of Moral Panics.- 14. Is it Me, or is it You? Exploring contemporary parental worries in Norway.- 15. Parental Anxieties and Double Standards in their Discussion of Young People’s Use of Social Media: perspectives from a qualitative project in Sao Paulo, Brazil.- 16. “Be careful with whom you speak to on the internet” - Framing anxiety in parental mediation through children’s perspectives in Portugal.- 17. Conclusions: Why is ‘Childhood at Risk’ so Appealing After All? The construction of the ‘iconic’ child in the context of neoliberal self-governance.