Abstract
While moral panic has been studied from a range of perspectives, much of this work underestimates its numerous spatial dimensions. Discussion of how place, space or location might inform a particular public moral crisis, or how moral panic is a phenomenon with significant socio-spatial causes and effects, has been left to those interested in how space and place inform social relations, to add a critical geographic perspective to moral panic analyses. Drawing on a recent episode of moral panic around a childcare centre in Sydney, this paper shows how moral panic can be used to locate the current sites of social change.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-326 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Australian Geographer |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Family
- Media
- Moral panic
- Parenting
- Sexuality