Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy
Originally published at Overland In this latest Australian election cycle, history repeats itself with increasing intensity as policy debate is…
Category: Moral Panics
Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections
Originally published on Counterpunch. Ongoing protests over Victorian state government lockdowns and vaccine mandates are emerging as fodder for ‘moral…
Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve
Debney, B. (2019). Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve. In C. M. Hall, The Routledge Handbook…
Media Hype, Imaginary Hobgoblins: Malcolm And Peter’s Politics Of Moral Panic
Originally published at New Matilda, though they seem to have joined so much of the rest of the nominal left.…
Working paper: The Terror Scare: War on Terror Mythology and Moral Panic
https://www.academia.edu/28916965/The_Terror_Scare_War_on_Terror_Mythology_and_Moral_Panic ‘Moral judgment about the historical events with which War on Terror narratives have become associated has become implicit in…
Crises Worthy and Otherwise: Terror Scare vs. Climate Change
‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’ Winston Churchill famously remarked. Famed for leading the Allied opposition to Nazi…