Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

Chapter 1 Introduction: Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures

Chapter 2 The UK ‘Video Nasties’ Campaign Revisited: Panics, Claims-Making, Risks, and Politics

Chapter 3 Youth Hypersexualization Discourses in French-Speaking Quebec

Chapter 4 Child Protection Anxieties and the Formation of UK Child Welfare and Protection Practices

Chapter 5 The Quantified Baby: Discourses of Consumption

Chapter 6 Responsible Girlhood and ‘Healthy’ Anxieties in Britain: Girls’ Bodily Learning in School Sport

Chapter 7 (De)Constructing Child-Focused Media Panics and Fears: The Example of German-Speaking Countries

Chapter 8 Free to Roam? Pokémon GO and Childhood Anxieties

Chapter 9 Children’s Grasp of Crime Discourses in the City of Monterrey, Mexico

Chapter 11 National Contexts for the Risk of Harm Being Done to Children by Access to Online Sexual Content

Chapter 12 Uncertain Abuse and Insider Credentials: Examining Ambiguous Cultural Representations of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the 2005 British Comedy Series ‘Nathan Barley’

Chapter 13 Teenage Perspectives on Sexting and Pleasure in Italy: Going Beyond the Concept of Moral Panics

Chapter 14 Is It Me, or Is It You? Exploring Contemporary Parental Worries in Norway

Chapter 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

Chapter 16 “ Be Careful with Whom You Speak to on the Internet ”—Framing Anxiety in Parental Mediation, Through Children’s Perspectives in Portugal

Chapter 17 Conclusions: Why Is ‘Childhood at Risk’ so Appealing After All? The Construction of the ‘Iconic’ Child in the Context of Neoliberal Self-Governance