Theorising Alcohol in Public Discourse: Moral Panics or Moral Regulation?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Yeomans
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Moral Regulation

scholarly journals State Policing: Moral Panics and Masculinity in post-2011 Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 94-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam Mecky
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article explores the interplay of the politics of moral panics, hegemonic state discourses, and the notion of masculinity in Egypt after the 2011 uprising. As sexual violence in the public sphere has become more visible in Egyptian mainstream public discourse post-2011, the state narrative was often anchored in morality and stability. Through examining three incidents of sexual violence, I attempt to unpack the state rhetoric that aims to police bodies, deeming certain female bodies violable, and vilifying male and female subjectivities. Through the logic of the masculinist state, I examine how the Egyptian state polices women’s bodies and consolidates male sexual dominance over women, using the politics of moral panics. The state, I argue, aims to reinforce its hegemonic masculinity to maintain control over the gendered public sphere and eliminate prospects of socio-political change, thereby consolidating the gendered architecture of citizenship.

Moral panic and the new neoliberal compromise

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 879-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P Hier
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Moral panics are conventionally explained as socially regressive overreactions to objectively minor problems. In the early 2000s, moral panics were recast as collective grievances that arise from perceived crises in the moral regulation of everyday life. Emphasizing neoliberal forms of entrepreneurial risk management, the panic-as-regulation perspective provides ways of thinking beyond some of the limitations associated with conventional perspectives. This article shows how the new neoliberal compromise, characterized by ongoing submission to the rule of capital in the absence of familiar ways of securing hegemonic consensus, is calling attention to the importance of theorizing the conjunctural norms of personal responsibility that underscore the panic-as-regulation perspective. By locating market-oriented subjectivities in the wider trajectory of neoliberalism, we achieve two things: first, a clearer understanding of the normative phase of neoliberal rule in whose image the panic-as-regulation perspective is crafted; second, a stronger position to develop insights into post-hegemonic claims-making activities that are appearing across the political and cultural spectrums.

scholarly journals Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110247
Author(s):  
Ian Fitzgerald ◽  
Rafał Smoczyński
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk

The UK 2016 EU Referendum has introduced a period of uncertainty for both the indigenous population and for non-British citizens. This uncertainty is considered within a framework of the recent revisions in the sociology of moral panics through an analysis of interviews with Polish migrant workers. This analysis reveals two main discursive framing logics. The first logic refers to a self-reported anti-Polish migrant moral panic discourse that – according to respondents – was exploited by British anti-migrant campaigners. The second type of articulation illustrates the good moral panic logic, namely, a panicking discourse appearing among respondents about the vulnerability of their community in post-Referendum Britain. This article, however, problematises the good moral panic logic by eliciting competing narratives found in the interview data. The latter did not aim merely at stimulating caring attitudes but referred also to moral regulation techniques to manage Brexit-oriented risks and avoid the trap of becoming a vulnerable migrant.

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1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
Edward Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Risk Society ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Fraser Institute

scholarly journals Analysis of (un)official discourses on drug use in Serbia

Crimen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Milana Ljubičić
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Drug Policies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of

In the article, we analyse discourse on drug abuse in contemporary Serbia. The ruling official discourse on drugs can be subsumed under the definition of moral panic, in creation of which, as well in dissemination, the media play an important role. Media uses specific vocabulary to send message warning of an impending social catastrophe. This tactic is effective: recipients of media content become anxious and frightened by the downfall of the society that awaits them in the near future. So logically they are converting into supporters of official discourses on the topic. In the end, this process has the power to briefly connect a shredded tissue of social cohesion, but also to produce a lack of freedom of citizens. In order to investigate whether drug-related moral panics in our country can have such implications, in this paper we analyzed the official discourse embodied in anti-drug policies, and the public discourse offered by media. Findings suggest that policymakers are calling on war against drugs, and name prevention and criminalization as the most successful strategies to fight it. The recipients of media content are agreeing with them. Furthermore, there is no doubt that such o discourse encourages the spread of moral panic about drugs, as well as social cohesion. Although abstractly defined, the enemy - drug, has the power to unite. However, it also causes a lack of freedom. Because of the narrative of the impending catastrophe, the citizens feel powerless and therefore demand from the higher state authorities to act in the name of the social future.

Good moral panics? Normative ambivalence, social reaction, and coexisting responsibilities in everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 867-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Hier
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Social Reactions ◽  
Social Reaction

This article breaks the silence on the politically progressive characteristics of a moral panic. In contrast to the tacit scholarly consensus that moral panics entail regressively conservative social reactions to putative harms, moral panics are alternatively conceptualized as normatively ambivalent operations of power. The article builds on continuing efforts to conceptualize moral panic as a form of moral regulation by explaining how moral panics are capable of perpetuating as well as disrupting and potentially even reversing the norms of intelligibility that buttress hegemonic understandings of, and moral responsiveness to, violence, injustice, suffering, and harm.

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