Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

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.