‘Inadaptable Gypsies’ and ‘Dangerous Antiziganists’: Struggling and Mirroring Folk Devils
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Publisher:Helsinki University Press
By: Ondřej Slačálek
Table of contents
Introduction: Folk Devils Past and Present
Folk Devils and the Hipster Figure: On Classification Struggles, Social Types and Figures in Moral Panic Research
The Sorcerer as Folk Devil in Contemporary Melanesia
Human Devils: Affects and Spectres of Alterity in Eerie Cities of Georgia
The Sugar Devil: Demonizing the Taste of Sweetness in Denmark
A Fish Rots from the Head: How Powerful Moral Entrepreneurs Manufacture Folk Devils
Trump Plays the Devil – the Devil Plays Trump
‘Gender Activists Will Kidnap Your Kids’: The Construction of Feminist and LGBT+ Rights Activists as Modern Folk Devils in Czech Anti-Gender Campaigns
From Folk Devils to Modern State Devils: The Securitization and Racial Policing of the Roma in Italy
‘Inadaptable Gypsies’ and ‘Dangerous Antiziganists’: Struggling and Mirroring Folk Devils
Who’s to Blame for Asylum ‘Moral Panics’? Asylum Seekers’ Perspectives on UK Policymaking, News Reporting, and Preferences of Identity Construction
‘Eastern Criminals’ and Moral Panic: On Lithuanian Offenders in Danish Prison Facilities
When Cryptotype Meets the Imaginary: ‘Adultery’ in a Sri Lankan Village
Afterword. Folk Devils: From Youthful Innocence to Conceptual Maturity
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PDF ISBN: 978-952-369-055-4 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-952-369-056-1 | Hardback ISBN: 978-952-369-054-7 | Mobi ISBN: 978-952-369-057-8 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-13
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 294
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