[lbo-talk] terrorism? forget about it (Heartfield, Furedi)

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Sep 9 18:43:40 PDT 2003


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:43:54 -0400, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:


> Charles; What did Jim Heartfield and the gang call it ? panic mongering ?
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/mtw9403.html Furedi, Frank (1994): 'A Plague of Moral Panics' (Living Marxism issue 73, November 1994). [WWW document] URL http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM73/LM73_Franf.html

Moral Panics, as a term in sociology was popularized by Joe Gusfield, if memory serves, here, "Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement, " Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is3/killingbeck.html Useful review on TV and moral panics.

Cohen, Stanley. 1980. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (New Edition). Oxford, UK: Martin Robertson. Cohen book blurbed by Chomsky, "States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0745623921/qid=1063158127/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-3948716- 9841716?v=glance&s=books has 25 sample pgs.

-- Michael Pugliese



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