The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global

by Adrian Daub

Fear of cancel culture has gripped the world, and it turns out to be an old fear in a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503640841
• ISBN13: 9781503640849
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages