Desired Panic

The Folk Devil as Provocateur

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2153299
AutoresJames P Walsh (0000-0003-2151-330X, University Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen41
Número9
Páginas1192-1206
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2019.1603532
OpenAlexW2939598561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas117

This paper reconsiders the role and status of the folk devil in episodes of moral panic. Interrogating three significant sites of anxiety- school shootings, musical subcultures, and terrorism- it suggests each represents an exceptional case where panics' excessive, asymmetrical, and disproportionate qualities are desired and activated by the very objects of alarm. Devoting considered attention to folk devils' agency and interests, reveals how, in many important instances, they represent provocateurs or critical interactants whose activities are oriented to evoking overwrought responses. Such a perspective illuminates the vicissitudes of reaction, promoting a more robust account of panics' origins, functions, and effects

Agency (philosophy · Anxiety · Art · Criminology · Moral panic · Panic · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Visual arts · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence