Watch: “Moral Panic in a New Age: Suspicion, Dread and Evolving Conceptions of Youth and the ‘Dangerous classes’ in Urban Space” by Joanne Dillabough
In this presentation I showcase the beginnings of a theoretical approach which attends to the spatial relationships operating between young people, new modes of urban surveillance within and outside schools, and the global problematic associated with moral panic operating in the affluent ‘West’.
Watch: “Dark Matter: Race, Religion and Youth in Global Times” by Anoop Nayak
This paper examines the complex articulation of race, religion and citizenship in the light of urban unrest in Britain in 2001, the destruction of the Twin Towers later that year and the aftermath of the London bombings in 2005. It considers the contradictory ways in which Muslim youth, asylum-seekers and minority ethnic young people are positioned in the post-9/11 landscape.