Please see below for a CFP for a proposed edited collection.
Call for Chapters: "Discourses of anxiety about childhood and youth across
cultures"
We are inviting abstract submissions for a volume edited by Liza Tsaliki
(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Despina Chronaki
(Cyprus University of Technology). Some of the chapters are already
commissioned and we are proud to count Martin Barker, Gary Clapton, Sean
Hier, Lelia Green, Alan McKee, Claire Bale and Elisabeth Staksrud in our
lineup (names in no particular order). We have had some initial talks
with Palgrave Macmillan for a book contract, who have expressed their
interest in this project. The final proposal will be drafted after the
selection of the abstract submissions.
The body of work surrounding the epistemology and therorizing of moral
panics has proliferated considerably from the nineties onwards, with
various researchers debating over the extent of its usefulness and the
limitations of the concept. Moral panics have invariably been discussed as
symptoms of a more general concern evoked by the rapid pace of social
change; or as entailing forms of displacement that detract attention from
broader concerns for which it may be more difficult to achieve wide
consensus; as better fitting the broader notion of social problems; or as
pertaining more to a discussion about risk.
Taking into account the complexity and richness of the academic dialogue,
we wish to contribute to it - especially insofar childhood and youth
cultures and the media are concerned. Guided by collections such as
Charles Krinsky’s ‘Moral Panics Over Contemporary Children and Youth’
(2008), Sean Hier’s ‘Moral Panics and the Politics of Anxiety’ (2011), and
Gary Clapton’s ‘Childhood and Youth’ (2015), with this call, we have the
ambition to interrogate further public debates about children and media
across cultures while taking fully into account the emotional baggage that
the notion of moral panics is laden with.
Following Buckingham and Strandgaard Jensen 2012, we are interested in
contributions that will explore the social construction of discourses of
anxiety surrounding childhood and youth as well as the cultural histories
that framed these discourses and their broader consequences in shaping
public policy regarding children and young people.
In this respect, we are looking into different accounts of a ‘politics of
consumption’ (Buckingham and Strandgaard Jensen 2012) as reflected in and
informed by popular understandings of childhood and youth cultures. Of
particular interest to us are contributions from usually under-researched
cultures, such as Latin America, India, Japan, Korea, China or the
Philippines.
Please submit a 500-word abstract, a list of 5 references, and a brief bio
to Liza Tsaliki ([log in to unmask]) and Despina Chronaki
([log in to unmask]) by September 30, 2016. Successful submissions
will be notified by the end of October 2016.
--
liza tsaliki, ph.d (sussex)
associate professor
faculty of communication and media studies
national and kapodistrian university of athens
1, sofokleous street & aristidou 11, 105 59 athens, greece
email: [log in to unmask],
phone ++30.210.368.9406
http://media.uoa.gr/people/tsaliki/
www.eukidsonline.net
international journal of media and cultural politics, commentaries editor
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/mcp
journal of porn studies, editorial board
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rprn
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