The cancel culture panic : how an American obsession went global
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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024].
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9781503640849, 1503640841
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ix, 212 pages ; 23 cm
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Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024].
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English
ISBN
9781503640849, 1503640841

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Translation of: Cancel Culture Transfer : wie eine moralische Panik die Welt erfasst. Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2022.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in new get-up. In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning media that has taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be. Media in Western Europe, South America, Russia and Australia have devoted as much--in some cases more--attention to this supposedly American phenomenon than most US outlets. From French crusades against "le wokisme" via British fables of the "loony left", from a German obsession with campus anecdotes to a global revolt against "gender studies": countries the world over have developed culture war narratives in conflict with the US, and above all its universities -- narratives that they themselves borrowed from the US. Who exactly is afraid of cancel culture? To trace how various global publics have been so quickly convinced that cancel culture exists and that it poses an existential problem, Daub compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of "being cancelled" has on readers around the world. A book for anyone wondering how the United States' institutions of higher learning have become objects of immense interest and political lightning rods, not just for audiences and voters in the US, but worldwide"--,Provided by publisher.
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Translated from the German.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Daub, A. (2024). The cancel culture panic: how an American obsession went global . Stanford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daub, Adrian. 2024. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daub, Adrian. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Daub, A. (2024). The cancel culture panic: how an american obsession went global. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Daub, Adrian. The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global Stanford University Press, 2024.

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