Month: May 2018

Media Hype, Imaginary Hobgoblins: Malcolm And Peter’s Politics Of Moral Panic

Ben May 24, 2018

The media driven, politically exploited furore over ‘African crime gangs’ leads Ben Debney to wonder out...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney