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This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and
youth - a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary
perceptions of "the young." In fact, given how the disciplinary
power of neoliberalism swiftly becomes a common conceptual currency
across national and cultural borders, discussing the way in which
neoliberal self-governance permeates the cultures of childhood and
youth is even more pertinent. This is followed by research on media
discourses of children and their cultural practices in Norway,
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Serbia, Greece, and the US.
This book discusses already established accounts about the
sexualization of children through a theoretical and an empirical
framework which bring together popular culture, consumption,
sexuality, selfhood and childhood. Adopting the view that the
debate about the sexualization of childhood is socially
constructed, it pushes beyond the dominant preconceptions about
'the risks of childhood'. Moral judgements about children's welfare
are perhaps nowhere more transient and controversial than when it
comes to children's sexuality, something that has deep historical
roots. However, and contrary to recurrent fears and moral panics
about the loss of childhood as a result of a tidal wave of a
sexualizing culture, this book theorizes the notion of children's
sexualization within the social construction of myths of childhood
innocence while also taking into account the extent of young
people's actual engagement with media and technology in
contemporary Western societies. It is within such a contextual
framework that this book unfolds, bringing together a historical
contextualization of childhood, sexuality and pornography with
contemporary empirical accounts regarding the 'presentation of the
self' and self-management.
This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and
youth - a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary
perceptions of "the young." In fact, given how the disciplinary
power of neoliberalism swiftly becomes a common conceptual currency
across national and cultural borders, discussing the way in which
neoliberal self-governance permeates the cultures of childhood and
youth is even more pertinent. This is followed by research on media
discourses of children and their cultural practices in Norway,
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Serbia, Greece, and the US.
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