Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Paperback, 1)

Folk devils and moral panics in the COVID-19 pandemic: An introduction? 1. Ten dimensions of dispute over moral panic theory in an age of COVID? 2. COVID-19 in social problems marketplaces? 3. The ‘crazies’ are panicking’. High-vis folk devils and the co-opting of moral panic in Australia? 4. Understanding the protest movements against the COVID-19 public policy in France as a moral panic? 5. Moral panics and health-related misinformation: When the audience becomes co-producer? 6. Framing social drama: Panic, protest and the Canadian trucker convoy? 7. Mutuality vs freedom: Competing moral panics in the UK debate over the wearing of masks during the pandemic? 8. Voices of reason, voices of moralization. Analysing moralising discourse in scientific claims in news media in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, 2020-2022? 9. Neo-liberal background of pandemic-related moral panic in Polish press discourse? 10. “Infected migrants”: The Italian political discourse about immigration during the pandemic: a renewed moral panic?? Folk Devils and moral panics in the COVID-19 pandemic: Final remarks