Ethical issues: censorship Books
Bristol University Press Perspectives on Whistleblowing
Book SynopsisExamining high profile cases including Kiriakou, Snowden, Foxley and Assange, this book offers crucial insights into the subject of whistleblowing.
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Random House Is Free Speech Under Threat
Book SynopsisTwo leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat?Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance most notably on university campuses and online that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses. Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before. Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world's leading curator of debate, this book is part of the THINK AGAIN series: short books that present two expert, contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end.
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Basic Books Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social
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Little, Brown & Company Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy
Book SynopsisWhen Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the attack was only the latest in a long line of crimes perpetrated by Antifa.In Unmasked, Andy Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the very beginning. He includes interviews with former followers of the group, people who've been attacked by them, and incorporates stories from his own life. This book contains a trove of documents obtained by the author, published for the first time ever.
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Little, Brown & Company Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy
Book SynopsisIn this #1 national bestseller, a journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and tactics.When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the attack was only the latest in a long line of crimes perpetrated by Antifa.In Unmasked, Andy Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the very beginning. He includes interviews with former followers of the group, people who've been attacked by them, and incorporates stories from his own life. This book contains a trove of documents obtained by the author, published for the first time ever.
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University of Massachusetts Press Movie Censorship and American Culture
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days of public outrage over ""indecent"" nickelodeon shows, Americans have worried about the power of the movies. The eleven essays in this book examine nearly a century of struggle over cinematic representations of sex, crime, violence, religion, race, and ethnicity, revealing that the effort to regulate the screen has reflected deep social and cultural schisms. In addition to the editor, contributors include Daniel Czitrom, Marybeth Hamilton, Garth Jowett, Charles Lyons, Richard Maltby, Charles Musser, Alison M. Parker, Charlene Regester, Ruth Vasey, and Stephen Vaughn. Together, they make it clear that censoring the movies is more than just a reflex against ""indecency,"" however defined. Whether censorship protects the vulnerable or suppresses the creative, it is part of a broader culture war that breaks out recurrently as Americans try to come to terms with the market, the state, and the plural society in which they live.
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Bold Type Books The Case against Free Speech: The First
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children
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Brown Walker Press (FL) Forbidden Fruit: The Censorship of Literature and Information for Young People
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University of New Orleans Press Dear Baba: A Story Through Letters
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Michigan State University Press Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics,
Book SynopsisCartoonists make us laugh - and think - by caricaturing daily events and politics. The essays, interviews, and cartoons presented in this innovative book vividly demonstrate the rich diversity of cartooning across Africa and highlight issues facing its cartoonists today, such as sociopolitical trends, censorship, and use of new technologies.Celebrated African cartoonists including Zapiro of South Africa, Gado of Kenya, and Asukwo of Nigeria join top scholars and a new generation of scholar-cartoonists from the fields of literature, comic studies and fine arts, animation studies, social sciences, and history to take the analysis of African cartooning forward.Taking African Cartoons Seriously presents critical thematic studies to chart new approaches to how African cartoonists trade in fun, irony, and satire. The book brings together the traditional press editorial cartoon with rapidly diverging subgenres of the art in the graphic novel and animation, and applications on social media. Interviews with bold and successful cartoonists provide insights into their work, their humour, and the dilemmas they face.This book will delight and inform readers from all backgrounds, providing a highly readable and visual introduction to key cartoonists and styles, as well as critical engagement with current themes to show where African political cartooning is going and why.
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Ig Publishing The Hidden Island
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Bloomsbury Continuum The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
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Bloomsbury Continuum The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
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Grey House Publishing Inc Opinions Throughout History: Free Speech &
Book SynopsisThis volume of Opinions Throughout History looks at the history and evolution of "free speech" and the freedom of expression and also of efforts to limit this right through censorship. While Americans are accustomed to viewing the United States as the exemplar of free speech and the free press, this has not always been the case. Until relatively recently in the nation's history, censorship in the media in the public discourse was quite common. Though the First Amendment guarantees are a traditional and cherished part of American culture, the idea of free speech has changed over time, as have attitudes about when it is acceptable to censor and control speech. Topics covered in this volume will include political debates, the function of the free press, censorship of literature, video games, and various kinds of art, and the debate over free speech and corporations.
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Bombardier Books This Was CNN: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. The Censor's Notebook: A Novel
Book SynopsisA fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship.Winner ofthe 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation PrizeA Censor?s Notebook is a window into the intimate workings of censorship under communism, steeped in mystery and secrets and lies, confirming the power of literature to capture personal and political truths.The novel beginswith aseemingly non-fiction frame story?an exchange of letters between the author and Emilia Codrescu, the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romania?s feared State Directorate of Media and Printing, the government branch responsible for censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors? notebooks and the state secrets in them, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one of these notebooks.Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana, the character of the author, for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censor?a job about which it is forbidden to talk?is revealed in this notebook, which discloses the structures ofthis mysterious institution and describes how these professional readers and ideological error hunters are burdened with hundreds of manuscripts, strict deadlines, and threatening penalties. The censors lose their identity, and are often frazzled by neuroses and other illnesses.
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. Newly updated, first North American edition--a paperback original In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce law and passed a severe new obscenity law. An 1861 Act of Parliament streamlined the harsh criminalization of sodomy. These and other laws enshrined modern notions of state censorship and validated state intrusion into people’s private lives. In 1861, John Addington Symonds, a twenty-one-year-old student at Oxford who already knew he loved and was attracted to men, hastily wrote out a seeming renunciation of the long love poem he’d written to another young man. Outrages chronicles the struggle and eventual triumph of Symonds—who would become a poet, biographer, and critic—at a time in British history when even private letters that could be interpreted as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials leading to harsh sentences under British law. Drawing on the work of a range of scholars of censorship and of LGBTQ+ legal history, Wolf depicts how state censorship, and state prosecution of same-sex sexuality, played out—decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde—shadowing the lives of people who risked in new ways scrutiny by the criminal justice system. She shows how legal persecutions of writers, and of men who loved men affected Symonds and his contemporaries, including Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and the painter Simeon Solomon. All the while, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was illicitly crossing the Atlantic and finding its way into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poet’s celebration of freedom, democracy, and unfettered love. Inspired by Whitman, and despite terrible dangers he faced in doing so, Symonds kept trying, stubbornly, to find a way to express his message—that love and sex between men were not “morbid” and deviant, but natural and even ennobling. He persisted in various genres his entire life. He wrote a strikingly honest secret memoir—which he embargoed for a generation after his death—enclosing keys to a code that the author had used to embed hidden messages in his published work. He wrote the essay A Problem in Modern Ethics that was secretly shared in his lifetime and would become foundational to our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and of LGBTQ+ legal rights. This essay is now rightfully understood as one of the first gay rights manifestos in the English language. Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is a critically important book, not just for its role in helping to bring to new audiences the story of an oft-forgotten pioneer of LGBTQ+ rights who could not legally fully tell his own story in his lifetime. It is also critically important for what the book has to say about the vital and often courageous roles of publishers, booksellers, and freedom of speech in an era of growing calls for censorship and ever-escalating state violations of privacy. With Outrages, Wolf brings us the inspiring story of one man’s refusal to be silenced, and his belief in a future in which everyone would have the freedom to love and to speak without fear.Trade Review“A heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history…[a] remarkable book.”—Harper’s Bazaar“A remarkable and moving work.”—Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart“With precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future. Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory book.”—Erica Wagner, author of Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge“Outrages is a fascinating history book with a cast of characters and an epic sweep that make it read like a novel Charles Dickens could have written, if he had ever written one about queers.”—New York Journal of Books“In Outrages, Naomi Wolf reveals a largely forgotten history of how science, law, and culture have intersected to suppress and silence sexual expression. As expanding acceptance threatens to erase a history of LGBTQ marginalization and struggle—and as we descend into authoritarian rule across so many countries—this is an important, powerful tale.”—Shahid Buttar, marriage equality activist and attorney“[A] long-overdue literary investigation into censorship and the life of a tormented trailblazer, a prescient father of the modern gay rights movement.”—Oprah Magazine“[This] remarkable book is a tour de force of research and insight into Symonds’ life and work and the related evolution of public and state attitudes toward homosexuality. [Wolf’s] is an essential contribution not only to queer history but also to studies of nineteenth-century culture. It is not to be missed.”—Booklist, starred review“Wolf provides engrossing accounts of Whitman and Symonds, yet her story is even more compelling in its wider portrait of the societies and institutions in America as well as England that served to shape the fears and prejudices that have lingered into our modern age. An absorbing and thoughtfully researched must-read for anyone interested in the history of censorship and issues relating to gay male sexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews“This ambitious literary, biographical, and historical treatise from Wolf (The Beauty Myth) examines both 19th-century Britain’s persecution of gay men and the work and life of the relatively obscure gay writer John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) . . . a fascinating look at this period and these writers.”—Publishers Weekly
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Bold Type Books Fearless Speech
Book SynopsisA powerful debunking of First Amendment orthodoxy that critiques 'reckless speech,' which endangers vulnerable groups, and elevates 'fearless speech,' which seeks to advance equality and democracy. Freedom of speech has never been more important—or more controversial. From debates about what's permissible on social media, to the politics of campus speakers and corporate advertisements, the First Amendment is incessantly in the news and constantly being held up as the fundamental principle of American democracy. Yet, in reality, it has contributed more to eroding our democracy than supporting it. In Fearless Speech, Dr. Mary Anne Franks emphasizes the distinction between what speech a democratic society should protect and what speech a democratic society should promote. While the First Amendment in theory is politically neutral, in practice it has been legally deployed most visibly and effectively to promote p
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Simon & Schuster The Indispensable Right
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Academica Press A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and
Book SynopsisTraditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the “good university” should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted for fear of causing “offense.” In this daring and intrepid book, which was originally withdrawn from publication by another publisher but is now proudly presented by Academica Press, the famous intelligence researcher James R. Flynn presents the underlying factors that have circumscribed the range of ideas now tolerated in our institutions of learning. Flynn studiously examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought. In an age marred by fake news and ever increasing social and political polarization, this book makes an impassioned argument for a return to critical thought in our institutions of higher education.
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OR Books Julian Assange In His Own Words
Book SynopsisThe WikiLeaks publisher and free speech campaigner Julian Assange has, since April 2019, been remanded at a maximum security prison in London facing extradition to the United States over WikiLeaks’ groundbreaking 2010 publications. Now, in this crisp anthology, Assange’s voice emerges – erudite, analytic and prophetic. Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, intelligence agencies and the media function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new. Drawing on his insights as the world’s most famous free speech activist Assange invites us to ask further questions about how power operates in a world increasingly dominated by a ubiquitous internet. Assange may be gagged, but in these pages his words run free, providing both an exhortation to fight for a better world and an inspiration when doing so.Trade Review“Of all the publications about Julian Assange, this — in his own words — stands out as eloquent and powerful. It's Julian speaking.” — John Pilger“[An] indispensable collection” — The Prisma“The West has political prisoners” — New York Journal of Books“The freedom fighter for all of us” — Al-Akhbar“Should become an essential tool in the campaign for Assange’s life” — Morning Star“Presents a world of sober analysis and penetrating insights” — WISE Up Action
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Fulcrum Publishing On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel
Book SynopsisIn America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better to establish more control over the people--while also pilfering their wallets. On Censorship is a part of the Publisher’s Speakers Corner Books.
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Skyhorse Publishing The Tyranny of Big Tech
Book SynopsisThe reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke. Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one
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Skyhorse Publishing The Tyranny of Big Tech
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Cormorant Books The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile
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University of Wales Press Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain. It draws on extensive archival evidence, vivid personal testimonies and in-depth analysis of legislation to document the different kinds of theatre censorship practised during the Second Republic (1931–6), the civil war (1936–9), the Franco dictatorship (1939–75) and the transition to democracy (1975–85). Changes in criteria, administrative structures and personnel from these periods are traced in relation to wider political, social and cultural developments, and the responses of playwrights, directors and companies are explored. With a focus on censorship, new light is cast on particular theatremakers and their work, the conditions in which all kinds of theatre were produced, the construction of genres and canons, as well as on broader cultural history and changing ideological climate – all of which are linked to reflections on the nature of censorship and the relationship between culture and the state.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The Evolution of Theatre Censorship in Spain from the 1830s to the 1930s 2. Un teatro de ida y vuelta: All Change and No Change in the Second Republic and the Civil War Case Study: Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, by Vicente Mena Pérez 3. The Franco Dictatorship: Censorship as ‘Propaganda’, ‘Education’ and ‘Information’ Case Study: La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca 4. The Pervasiveness of Censorship during the Dictatorship: Right-Wing Triumphalism, Commercial Theatre, Revistas and Catalan Theatre Case Study: La Infanzona, by Jacinto Benavente 5. The Realist Generation: A Spotlight on the Margins of Society Case Study: Escuadra hacia la muerte, by Alfonso Sastre 6. Experimental, Avant-Garde and Independent Theatre: Pushing the Boundaries Case Study: Castañuela 70, by Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero 7. The Censorship of Foreign Theatre: From Taming the Text to Disruptive Drama Case Study: El círculo de tiza caucasiano, by Bertolt Brecht 8. Dénouement: Dismantling the Apparatus during the Transition to Democracy Case Study: La torna, by Els Joglars/Albert Boadella Conclusion Bibliography: Archival sources Legislation Other sources Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine
Book SynopsisAcademic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on ‘no platforming’ by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. It looks at how the increased neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current climate, and considers how academics and their universities should respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression.Trade ReviewEnforcing Silence is a much-needed intervention in debates that have long raged about academic freedom in relation to the Palestine question and academic boycott. It provides a thoughtful critique of the usefulness of a liberal notion of academic freedom from a variety of disciplinary and geographic locations ... a thoughtfully curated and insightful collection of essays that will give scholars, students, and activists important lines of analysis to counter enforced silence. * Journal of Palestine Studies *This collection of essays deserves the attention of political theorists and civil liberties lawyers as well as Middle East area experts. Its arguments may also be of interest to a wider public in the wake of America’s long, hot summer of protests by Black Lives Matter. * The Middle East Journal *As global support for Palestinian justice grows steadily, the silencing of criticism of Israel takes new aggressive forms. To understand why this is the case, and how the politics of Israel-Palestine has become indelibly connected to academic freedom, read this valuable and wide-ranging collection. * Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent *Criticism of Israel has become the litmus test of “academic freedom”. Anyone believing that this is, at bottom, a straightforward and unquestionable notion will change their mind after reading this very stimulating and useful book. * Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, Palestine and Academic Freedom Part I: Universities and Academic Governance 1. Whose University? Academic Freedom, Neoliberalism and the Rise of ‘Israel Studies’ 2. Disciplinarity and the Boycott 3. “The Academic Field must be Defended”: Excluding Criticism of Israel from Campuses. 4. Lebanese and American Law at the American University of Beirut: A Case of Legal Liminality in Neoliberal Times 5. Precarious Work in Higher Education, Academic Freedom and the Academic Boycott of Israel in Ireland Part II: Colonial Erasure in Higher Education 6. Colonial Apologism and the Politics of Academic Freedom 7. The Academic Boycott and Beyond: Towards an Epistemological Strategy of Liberation and Decolonization 8. Colonial Academic Control in Palestine and Israel: Blueprint for Repression? Part III: Interrogating Academic Freedom 9. Lawfare against Academics and the Potential of Legal Mobilization as Counterpower 10. Rethinking Academic Palestine Advocacy and Activism: Academic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Universality of the Emancipatory Struggle 11. Against Academic Freedom: “Terrorism,” Settler Colonialism, and Palestinian Liberation 12 Privilege, Platforms, and Power: Uses and Abuses of Academic Freedom
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Academic Freedom
Book SynopsisIdentifying academic freedom as a major casualty of rapid and extensive reforms to the governance and practices of academic institutions worldwide, this timely Handbook considers the meaning of academic freedom, the threats it faces, and its relation to rights of critical expression, public accountability and the democratic health of open societies.An international cohort of leading scholars discuss the historical conceptualisations of academic freedom and explore the extent of its reconfiguration by neoliberalism and economic globalisation. Chapters examine the threats posed to academic freedom by interventionist government, economic fundamentalism, political conservatism and extremism. The Handbook finds that these threats endanger the intellectual ambitions at the core of academic freedom: contesting established ‘truth’ and holding power to account.Examining a matter of urgent social and political importance which is crucial to the future of democracy and intellectual autonomy, this Handbook is an invigorating read for students and scholars researching academic freedom, free speech and democratic governance in higher education institutions.Trade Review‘The Handbook on Academic Freedom paints an extremely disturbing picture of how, globally, academics’ ability to act as critical public intellectuals has been radically undermined by universities’ shift from a collegial to a managerial mode of governance. However, this is not simply a critique of the myriad ways in which academics’ “performance” is now constantly audited and monitored in a way that limits their freedom to perform their proper function, but also a much-needed call to arms.’ -- Julian Petley, Brunel University London, UK‘For three decades academic faculty have struggled within a neo liberal performance economy to maintain control over their work and ground it socially amid corporate universities focused on their own status as an end in itself. Now the spread of authoritarian states, the turn to more conflictual geopolitics and the new securitisation of science and technology pose more treacherous challenges. Much depends on whether academic freedom in its different variations across the world can ride out the storm. The book is an indispensable guide to this fundamental and vital issue.’ -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Academic Freedom 1 Richard Watermeyer PART I HISTORIES AND CONCEPTUALISATIONS 1 Academic freedom in the modern British university: a historical perspective 18 Mike Finn 2 Publicness and intellectual work: rethinking academic freedom in the age of impact 37 Mark Murphy 3 Academic freedom as radical freedom 52 Christian Krijnen 4 A symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and liberal democracy: the case of higher education in Turkey 70 Ayla Göl PART II NEOLIBERALISM/MANAGERIALISM 5 Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research 90 Eva Aladro Vico 6 Institutional autonomy, managerialism and the conditions for academic freedom in Swedish higher education 105 Goran Puaca 7 Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism 125 Mark Olssen 8 Reframing the freedom to teach 146 Bruce Macfarlane PART III CHALLENGING UNEQUAL STRUCTURES 9 A nation reimagined: the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey 160 Tahir Abbas and Anja Zalta 10 Whiteness masquerading as academic freedom 177 Georgina Tuari Stewart 11 Eurocentrism, racism and academic freedom in South Africa 190 Savo Heleta PART IV PERSONAL/POLITICAL REFLECTIONS 12 Toxic times for feminist academic freedom? 206 Carol A. Taylor, Susanne Gannon, Kathryn Scantlebury and Jayne Osgood 13 Academic freedom as experience, relation and capability: a view from Hong Kong 225 Liz Jackson 14 Academic freedom begins at home 242 Nesta Devine PART V STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC FREEDOM 15 Student freedom in contemporary universities: England and Italy compared 252 Lorenzo Cini 16 Academic freedom, students and the decolonial turn in South Africa 269 Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Thierry M. Luescher 17 Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students’ unions 288 Rille Raaper PART VI NEW CONFIGURATIONS 18 The end of academic freedom: two displacements and new ends for it 305 Ronald Barnett 19 Academic freedom and the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict 319 Cary Nelson 20 Academic freedom and extramural expression in the US 336 Henry Reichman PART VII A CALL TO ARMS 21 Campaigning for academic freedom 356 Dennis Hayes Index
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Reaktion Books The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God
For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in Protestant and non-Christian circles. Biased, inconsistent and frequently absurd in its attempt to ban objectionable texts of every conceivable description – with sometimes fatal consequences – the Index also reflected the deep learning and careful consideration of many hundreds of intellectual contributors over the long span of its storied evolution. This book constitutes the first full study of the Index of Prohibited Books to be published in English. It examines the reasons behind the Church’s attempts to censor religious, scientific and artistic works, and considers not only why this most sustained of campaigns failed, but what lessons can be learned for today’s debates over freedom of expression and cancel culture.
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Liverpool University Press Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain
Book SynopsisThis book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods "new states" use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of "people without history" and the production of their texts through the literary "underground" can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Media, Development and Democracy
Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct value systems. With fresh portraits of new and traditional media throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia, authors delve into the essential role of the media in developing countries. Case studies illuminate the relationship between the State and the media in Russia, as well as the challenges faced by journalists working in Kurdistan. Further cases reveal bureaucratic censorship of books in Brazil, regulatory dilemmas in Australia, state policies in post-colonial Malawi, and the potential of oral culture for the strengthening of democratic conversation. Media, Development and Democracy brings the liberal democratic media model into new terrains where some of its core assumptions do not hold. In doing so, the authors' collective voices illuminate pressing issues facing our current global dialogue and our liberal and democratic expectations concerning communications and the media. This essential volume works as a magnifying glass for our current times, forcing us to question what kind of media we want todayTable of ContentsIntroduction: Overlapping communicative meshes: plural perspectives on media and development; Heloisa Pait Chapter 1. Foreign Authors, National Bans: Books and Censorship in Brazil (1964-1985); Sandra Reimão Chapter 2. Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model through Developmentality in Malawi; Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris Chapter 3. Toward a Framework for Studying Democratic Media Development and 'Media Capture': The Iraqi Kurdistan Case; Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger, and Paola Banchero Chapter 4. Regulating Unhealthy Food Advertising to Children under Neoliberalism: An Australian Perspective; Nipa Saha Chapter 5. How Russian Media Helped Develop the Authoritarian Tradition: Its Historical Legacy for Today; Dmitry Strovsky and Ron Schleifer Chapter 6. How to Capture the Political in Everyday Conversation? Focus Groups as a Method to Research Democratic Practices in Daily Life; ngela Cristina Salgueiro Marques and Luís Mauro Sá Martino
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Emerald Publishing Limited Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship
Book SynopsisIn Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D Silva have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing literature. This volume explores free speech and the control thereof from both a political as well as cultural lens. These topics have once again moved center stage in scholarly as well as popular discussions on what must, should, and should not be said in the public sphere of ideas, opinions, and tastes. In a world of alternative facts, fake news, gender politics, company self-censorship, edited art, hate speech, and career-ending tweets, the chapters in this volume make a timely contribution.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D. Silva PART I. SPACES AND INSTITUTIONS OF FREE SPEECH Chapter 1. Fighting Censorship: A Shift from Freedom to Diversity; Anthony Löwstedt Chapter 2, Free Speech and Social Media in Academia; Kimberly W. O’Connor and Gordon B. Schmidt Chapter 3. Stories about Risk: Media Narratives of Known, Emerging and Novel Health Threats; Gabriela Capurro and Josh Greenberg PART II. THE INTERNET AS PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter 4. Censoring Sex: Payment Platforms’ Regulation of Sexual Expression; Natasha Tusikov Chapter 5. Gafam and Hate Content Moderation: Deplatforming and Deleting the Alt-right; Tanner Mirrlees Chapter 6. Public Accusation on the Internet; Sarah Lageson and Kateryna Kaplun PART III. REGULATING SPEECH ACROSS NATIONS Chapter 7. Freedom of Expression and Humour in Canada: The Case of Jérémy Gabriel vs Mike Ward; Anne-Marie Gingras Chapter 8. Hate Speech, Media, and Canadian Federal Law; Allyson M. Lunny Chapter 9. Media Law, Illiberal Democracy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of Hungary; Lucia Bellucci Chapter 10. Stirring up Strife: The Censorship of Communist Publications in Late Colonial India; Devika Sethi
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Footnote Press Ltd The New Censorship
Book SynopsisIn recent years, journalists have been dismissed by some or targeted for abuse, mainstream news has been consumed by 'infotainment' and clickbait, driven by profits, accused of being too cosy with political and economic elites. But at times of democratic decay all over the world, with relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts, and unprecedented technological tools to spread disinformation and incite violence - brave journalism is needed more than ever.The New Censorship focuses on the unfortunate and unexpected mechanisms through which today's media has inadvertently amplified the anti-democratic movement that looms over our societies. It is the story of the birth of what Panievsky calls 'the strategic bias': the bias that occurs when those in charge of mediating reality surrender to a populist campaign fed by partisan media and online battles. Unlike other distortions, this bias is strategic, as it is not driven by pure fear; it results from journalists' belief that in order to cater for 'the people' and serve democracy - they have to pay dues to the populist camp, exclude what is labelled 'unpatriotic' voices, avoid expressions that might confirm the claim they are all 'treacherous lefties' and thus, to slowly shift our entire communication universe to the right. By weaponising liberal norms against liberal democracy, the populist right has found a way to exercise a more effective and socially acceptable type of silencing and manipulation, boosted by propaganda operations disguised as news. Instead of banning stories, they spread flows of disinformation, which take hours and days to debunk. Instead of silencing, they shout louder. Instead of blue-pencilling, they employ fake users, bots, and outrageous smear campaigns to dominate the conversation. Heavy-handed censorship is unnecessary when one can manipulate people to censor themselves, or simply stop listening.Based on cutting-edge empirical research, personal experience in newsrooms and parliament corridors, and a decade of living under populism in power in Israel, the author will not only explain how we got here but also lay out what we all could (and should) do to restart the conversation and protect our right to know.
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Berghahn Books PC Worlds
Book SynopsisThis provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics in Sweden, the book examines cases, some in which the author was himself involved, but also comparative material from other countries.
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Liverpool University Press Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain
Book SynopsisThis book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of people without history and the production of their texts through the literary underground can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.
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Cambridge Media Group Censorship & Free Speech: PSHE & RSE Resources
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Gonzo Multimedia The Real Porn Wars
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The Westbourne Press Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in
Book SynopsisThe urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll armies, words, images and ideas have always been hunted down by those trying to suppress them. In this compelling account, Eric Berkowitz reveals why and how humanity has, from the beginning, sought to silence itself. Ranging from the absurd - such as Henry VIII's decree of death for anyone who 'imagined' his demise - to claims by American slave owners that abolitionist literature should be supressed because it hurt their feelings, Berkowitz takes the reader on an unruly ride through history, highlighting the use of censorship to reinforce class, race and gender privilege and guard against offence. Elucidating phrases like 'fake news' and 'hate speech', Dangerous Ideas exposes the dangers of erasing history, how censorship has shaped our modern society and what forms it is taking today - and to what disturbing effects.Trade ReviewDangerous Ideas] always manages to surprise, especially with a lively flow of villains … [Berkowitz] is singularly focused on those heroes and heroines who refused to submit to the dictates and biases of their time. The fact that their works are still with us today hammers home the central thesis of Dangerous Ideas: censorship is ultimately futile and cannot permanently extinguish the thirst for freedom of expression. Berkowitz has assembled a stirring cast to demonstrate this.’Ariel Dorfman, NYRB; 'Free speech good! Censorship bad! Undeniable. Indisputable. Except that Eric Berkowitz denies and disputes with such intellectual agility as to induce cramping of the brain. Vivid, violent historical examples buttressing the case against censorship, while we citizens of the internet find ourselves drowning in crud for want of it. The point is you'll enjoy the ride, and the argument has never been more pressing.' Ted Koppel
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Scribe Publications The Trials of Portnoy: how Penguin brought down
Book SynopsisFifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative regimes of censorship in the world. The goal was simple: to keep Australia free of the moral contamination of impure literature. Under the censorship regime, books that might damage the morals of the Australian public were banned, seized, and burned; bookstores were raided; publishers were fined; and writers were charged and even jailed. But in the 1970s, that all changed. In 1970, in great secrecy and at considerable risk, Penguin Books Australia resolved to publish Portnoy’s Complaint — Philip Roth’s frank, funny, and profane bestseller about a boy hung up about his mother and his penis. In doing so, Penguin spurred a direct confrontation with the censorship authorities, which culminated in criminal charges, police raids, and an unprecedented series of court trials across the country. Sweeping from the cabinet room to the courtroom, The Trials of Portnoy draws on archival records and new interviews to show how Penguin and a band of writers, booksellers, academics, and lawyers determinedly sought for Australians the freedom to read what they wished — and how, in defeating the forces arrayed before them, they reshaped Australian literature and culture forever.Trade Review‘Anyone interested in Australian history, politics and books generally will find much food for thought in this entertaining, well-researched and carefully written history.’ -- Julia Taylor * Books+Publishing *‘The finely detailed story of the legal fight in Australia against the censorship of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.’ -- Sean O’Beirne * The Monthly *‘Mullins’s compelling account of these last days of the old censorship regime skilfully draws on a rich range of sources, including interviews with many of the key figures involved. He gives an insight not just into how the system operated and the politics involved, but also into a significant cultural moment in Australia.’ -- Amanda Laugesen * Inside Story *‘Mullins has applied his skills in thorough research, forensic examination of evidence and a light wit to the numerous trials in different States which, in 1970-71, determined whether sales of Portnoy’s Complaint should be permitted in Australia.’ -- Mark Thomas * The Canberra Times *‘[A] literary detective story with a difference.’ -- Craig Munro * The Australian *‘The Trials of Portnoy, tells the true story of how Portnoy’s Complaint was declared illegal throughout the Commonwealth, and how, eventually, it became a book we were allowed to own and read … The real treat of The Trials of Portnoy though, is to see how many people were willing to stand up in court and make the always difficult argument for literature.’ -- Sean O’Beirne * The Monthly *‘The Trials of Portnoy is full of the juice and drama and hilarity of the courtroom … Patrick Mullins has written an utterly diverting account of a bit of ancient Australian literary history … superb.’ -- Peter Craven * The Saturday Paper *‘Patrick Mullins’ latest effort provides the most detailed account yet of this embarrassing moment in our inglorious history.’ -- Chris Dite * Readings *‘[A] wonderful account of how a group of brave publishers, booksellers and academics brought down Australia’s ridiculous censorship regime.’ -- Barry Reynolds * Herald Sun *‘Mullins draws on his skills as an academic and writer to give an extraordinary rundown on these trials … [The Trials of Portnoy] could well become the ultimate academic guide to the changes to censorship in Australia.’ -- Fiona Myers * The Weekly Times *‘An illuminating tale about book censorship in Australia … Publishers and bookstores are the heroes in this … entertaining account of a ‘hard-won’ battle.’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘Patrick Mullins gives us a useful litany of the blow by blow progress of those cases that came to court.’ -- Sue Rabbitt Roff * Pearls and Irritations *Praise for Tiberius with a Telephone ‘This is, as others have remarked, biography at its best: diligently researched, with detail nowhere else examined, and a demonstration of fine judgement concerning the crucial interplay between personal disposition, role demands, and historical context.’ -- James Walter * Australian Book Review *Praise for Tiberius with a Telephone ‘A welcome addition to prime ministerial biography … An engaging and informative read.’ -- Troy Bramston * The Australian *Praise for Tiberius with a Telephone ‘This is the most detailed investigation and explanation of what happened … Completing a biography of this scope is an enormous undertaking, and Patrick Mullins does it with considerable skill … Mullins conveys the turmoil, the atmosphere of crisis, the bickering and the bloodletting that marked this extraordinary period of Australian political history.’ -- David Solomon * Inside Story *‘With The Trials of Portnoy, Mullins has further established himself as a first-rate historical storyteller and considerably strengthened our understanding of the history of censorship in Australia.’ -- Nathan Hollier * Australian Historical Studies *
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Watkins Media Limited Twelve Cries From Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's
Book SynopsisSince August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the memories and stories of twelve war survivors, mostly women and relatives of the disappeared, who wished to have their stories retold so that a permanent record might be made, and so that those outside the country might understand their experiences. The outcome of a journey across the island in late 2018 by writer and Professor of Literature Minoli Salgado, who was revisiting her ancestral home, Twelve Cries from Home is deeply-layered and localised work of travelling witness. It returns to the concept of home as a place of belonging and security, which is a lost ideal for most, and uses a Sri Lankan measure of distance – the call, or hoowa – to ask how we might attend to stories that are difficult to tell and to hear. Exploring the bitter complexity of war by presenting stories from four regions of Sri Lanka, it reveals the complex network of relationships between the agents of conflict and their victims, as well as the blurred boundary between victims and perpetrators, the role of informers and the process of ethical repair after traumatic experience. Twelve Cries from Home offers a rare glimpse into a country subject to enforced self-censorship, allowing us to take stock of social and political developments in Sri Lanka and what has and has not been achieved in light of the transitional justice mechanisms promised to the UN.Trade Review"This collection of true stories is the vital afterwork of any war. Here, Salgado collects and records testimony from those caught up. We gasp at what is being shared. It must be shared, read, heard, collected, disseminated. This is prize-winning work.”"A deeply sensitive and sensitizing book that offers a sophisticated understanding of real pain. Twelve Cries From Home is driven by a humanity that provides moral anchor in a terrain where the darkest instincts reign free.""A valuable document of testimony gathered during a brief time of greater openness in a country still shattered by war and cruelty.""A masterpiece."
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Clarity Press Journalists and Their Shadows
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Classiques Garnier L'Encadrement Des Publications Erotiques En
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Classiques Garnier Images Defendues: La Liberte d'Expression Face a
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Classiques Garnier La Censure Theatrale 18351849
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£72.20
Brill Schoningh Personen Und Profile 1542-1700: Band 1: A-K /
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£442.70
Brill Schoningh Systematisches Repertorium Zur Buchzensur
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£214.70
V&R unipress GmbH Censorship and Exile
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