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„Crucially, in the early years of our period, it is sustained by what we call a displacement effect: the connection between the crisis and the way it is appropriated in the social experience of the majority – social anxiety – passes through a series of false ‘resolutions’, primarily taking the shape of a succession of moral panics. It is as if each surge of social anxiety finds a temporary respite in the projection of fears on to and into certain compellingly anxiety-laden themes:“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 315);„Crucially, in the early years of our period, it is sustained by what we call a displacement effect: the connection between the crisis and the way it is appropriated in the social experience of the majority – social anxiety – passes through a series of false ‘resolutions’, primarily taking the shape of a succession of moral panics. It is as if each surge of social anxiety finds a temporary respite in the projection of fears on to and into certain compellingly anxiety-laden themes:“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 315)

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Hall, Stuart (creator)
Critcher, C. (creator)
Jefferson, Tony (creator)
Clarke, John (creator)
Roberts, Brian (creator)
Palgrave Macmillan (publisher) (was published at)