Ethical issues: censorship Books
Encyclopedia of Censorship Facts on File Library
Book SynopsisThis book covers the history and evolution of censorship and its role in society today. Covering all forms of expression from the past to the present, from the office of the censor in ancient Rome to the Internet in the computer age, this A-Z reference examines censorship.
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Censorship
Book SynopsisThe issue of censorship remains prevalent in society, taking on many different forms - from suppressing individuals' rights to speak freely and read what they choose to curtailing the independence of the media. This work examines the history and practices of censorship in five countries - the United States, Russia, China, Zimbabwe, and Egypt.
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University of Exeter Press The Censorship of British Drama 19001968 Volume 1
Book SynopsisNew paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis first volume in Steve Nicholson's important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 to 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives.Trade ReviewNicholson is very readable. He tells a good story, both chronologically and in the many accounts of particular wrangles, campaigns, negotiations, subtleties, paradoxes and outrages. . . . He uses correspondence to give palpable life to human agencies within institutional structures. * Theatre Research International *. . should be welcomed as a long overdue account of the role and function of British theatre censorship during the twentieth century. * Modern Drama *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Because Lions Ain't Rabbits Section One: 1900-1918 1. From Ibsenity to Obscenity: Principles and Practice 1900-1909 2. People Who Eat Peas With Their Knife: The Government Enquiry of 1909 3. Cats, Canaries and Guinea Pigs: Principles and Practice 1909-1913 4. A Clique of Erotic Women: The First World War (Part One) 5. The Hidden Hand: The First World War (Part Two) Section Two: 1919-1932 6. The Dead Men: Principles and Practice 7. No Screams from Rabbit: Horror and Religion 8. Merchandisers in Muck: The Immoral Maze 9. Our Good Humoured Community: Domestic Politics 10. Foreign Bodies: International Politics Conclusion: A Gentler Process of Prevention Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of Exeter Press The Censorship of British Drama 19001968 Volume 2
Book SynopsisNew paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre ResearchThis volume covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before, during and after the Second World War, focusing mainly on political and moral censorship.Trade ReviewNicholson’s volumes are unique in their objective and especially their richness of research material. As such, his Censorship of British Drama represents an unsurpassed source of reference for theatre historians. * Studies in Theatre and Performance *. . . should be welcomed as a long overdue account of the role and function of British theatre censorship during the twentieth century. * Modern Drama *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Most Dispensable of All the Fetters' Section One: 1933-1939 1 'Verboten': The Nazis Onstage 2 'Prudes on the Prowl': The Moral Gaze 3 'The Author Will Probably Deny It...': Naming the Homosexual 4 'These Communist Effusions': Testing Tolerance in Politics and Religion Section Two: 1939-1945 5 'Everybody Bombs Babies Now': Politics in Wartime 6 'Lubricating the War Machine': The Nude in Wartime 7 'Beastly Practices': Sexual Taboos in Wartime Section Three: 1945-1952 8 'Two Ways To Get Rid Of The Censor' 9 'This Infernal Business of Sex' 10 'But Perverts Must Go Somewhere in the Evening' 11 'The Crazy but Satisfactory Ethics of the English' Afterword: 'Congenial Work' Notes on Archive Referencing and Authors' Names Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Counterspeech
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom of speech, and it can be a much more powerful tool against dangerous and toxic speech than blocking and censorship.In the face of online hate speech and disinformation, counterspeech is a tremendously important and timely topic. The book uniquely brings together expertise from a variety of disciplines. It explores linguistic, ethical and legal aspects of counterspeech, looks at the functions and effectiveness of counterspeech from anthropological, practical and sociological perspectives and addresses the question of how we can use modern technological advances to make counterspeech a more instantaneous and efficient option to respond to harmful language online. The greatest benefit of counterspeech lies in the ability to reach bystanders and prevent them Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Approaches to Counterspeech: Linguistics, Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity; 1. Counterspeech Practices in Digital Discourse - An Interactional Approach; 2. The Philosophy of Counter Language; 3. Seeing the Full Picture: The Value of Interdisciplinary Counterspeech Research; Part II: Counterspeech in Context: Media, Culture and the Legal Framework; 4. Counterspeech as Persuasion and Media Effects; 5. Online Hate speech in Video Games Communities: A Counter Project; 6. Reimagining the Current Regulatory Framework to Online Hate Speech: Why Making Way for Alternative Methods is Paramount for Free Speech; Part III: Automation and the Future of Counterspeech; 7. Automating Counterspeech; 8. The Future of Counterspeech: Effective Framing, Targeting, and Evaluation; Conclusion
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Picador USA The Man Who Hated Women
Book SynopsisSmithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours. Margaret Talbot, The New YorkerAnthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote repression and prudery.Between 1873 and Comstock's death in 1915, eight remarkable women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These sex radicals supported contraception, sexual education, gender equality, and women's right to pleasure. They took on the fearsome censor in explicit, personal writing, seeking to redefine work, family, marriage, and love for a bold new era. In The Man Who Hated Women, Amy Sohn tells the
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Cambridge University Press The Net and the Nation State
Book SynopsisThis book should be of interest to anyone investigating the debate on internet governance from a legal or social science perspective, including politics, media studies and human geography. The book connects ideas about internet jurisdiction with issues of censorship and freedom of expression, as well as free trade.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Internet governance and the resilience of the nation state Uta Kohl and Carrie Fox; Part I. Competing Narratives: 2. The universal norm of freedom of expression - towards an unfragmented internet: interview with Guy Berger; 3. Which limits on freedom of expression are legitimate? Divergence of free speech values in Europe and the US Jan Oster; 4. Nation branding and internet governance: framing debates over freedom and sovereignty Melissa Aronczyk and Stanislav Budnitsky; Part II. Solid and Porous Cyberborders: 5. Gatekeeping practices in the Chinese social media and the legitimacy challenge Lulu Wei; 6. Protecting gamblers or protecting gambling? The economic dimension of borderless online 'speech' Christine Hurt; 7. Where East meets West: censorship and cyberborders through EU data protection law Uta Kohl and Diane Rowland; 8. Cyberborders through 'code': an all or nothing affair? Dan Jerker B. Svantesson; 9. Cyberborders and the right to travel in cyberspace Graham Smith; Part III. Unpacking Internet Jurisdiction: 10. Alternative geographies of cyberspace Barney Warf; 11. Polycentrism and democracy in internet governance Jan Aart Scholte; 12. The end of territory? The re-emergence of community as a principle of jurisdictional order in the internet era Cedric Ryngaert and Mark Zoetekouw; 13. A space (partially) apart? Religious asylum and its lessons for online governance Philippe Ségur; 14. Geoinformation, cartographic (re)presentation and the nation state: a co-constitutive relation and its transformation in the digital age Georg Glasze.
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Bloomsbury Academic Internet Shutdowns in Africa
Book SynopsisTony Roberts is a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, where he works on digital inequalities and digital rights. He is currently the Principal Investigator on the GCRF-UKRI-funded African Digital Rights Network.Felicia Anthonio is Campaign Manager for #KeepItOn at Access Now, a global campaign of over 300 organisations that fights against internet shutdowns. She was formerly a programme associate at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), where she coordinated the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a continental network of free expression organisations in Africa. She is a member of the African Digital Rights Network and a 2019 Fellow of the African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG).
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Sympathy for the Cyberbully
Book SynopsisIn the first systematic account of judicial rulings striking down cyberbullying laws in the United States and Canada, Sympathy for the Cyberbully offers an unapologetic defense of online acid-tongued disparagers and youthful and adult sexters. In the first decade of the 21st century, legitimate concerns about the harmful effects of cyberbullying degenerated into a moral panic. The most troubling aspect of the panic has been a spate of censorshipthe enactment of laws which breach long-standing constitutional principles, by authorizing police to arrest and juries to convict, and schools to suspend, individuals for engaging in online expression that would be constitutionally protected had it been communicated offline. These hastily drawn statutes victimize harsh critics of elected officials, scholars, school officials and faculty, distributors of constitutionally protected pornography, adolescents talking smack, and teens who engage in the consensual exchange of nude images, eveTrade Review“Cyberbullying, sexting, and revenge pornography have strained robust free speech principles in the United States and elsewhere. Arthur S. Hayes provides an important resource for understanding the challenges the dark underbelly of Internet communications have presented to courts and legislators, detailing how well-intentioned policymakers may have overreached in their efforts to protect victims in ways that threaten speech that is legitimate, and in some cases, valuable. Rich details of cases and controversies arising in the past decade illustrate the difficult tradeoffs in emergent online speech jurisprudence.” Daxton Stewart, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Texas Christian University; Editor of <> (2013)Table of ContentsPreface – Acknowledgment – Anti-Cyberbullying Laws: A Sober Analysis through the Moral Panic Theory Lens – Cyberbullying and Free Speech – The Unnecessary and Unjust Creation of Virtual Juvenile Delinquents – “Enclaves of Totalitarianism” – Censorship Redux: The 21st Century Attack on the First Amendment Right of Public Criticism by the Use of Cyberharassment, Cyberstalking and Online Impersonation Laws – Image Control: Who Loses When Teen Sexting and Revenge Porn Are Criminalized? – The Short Life and Quick Death of the First Cyberbullying Law in Canada (August 6, 2013–December 10, 2015) – Cases Index – Subject Index.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Sympathy for the Cyberbully
Book SynopsisIn the first systematic account of judicial rulings striking down cyberbullying laws in the United States and Canada, Sympathy for the Cyberbully offers an unapologetic defense of online acid-tongued disparagers and youthful and adult sexters. In the first decade of the 21st century, legitimate concerns about the harmful effects of cyberbullying degenerated into a moral panic. The most troubling aspect of the panic has been a spate of censorshipthe enactment of laws which breach long-standing constitutional principles, by authorizing police to arrest and juries to convict, and schools to suspend, individuals for engaging in online expression that would be constitutionally protected had it been communicated offline. These hastily drawn statutes victimize harsh critics of elected officials, scholars, school officials and faculty, distributors of constitutionally protected pornography, adolescents talking smack, and teens who engage in the consensual exchange of nude images, eveTrade Review“Cyberbullying, sexting, and revenge pornography have strained robust free speech principles in the United States and elsewhere. Arthur S. Hayes provides an important resource for understanding the challenges the dark underbelly of Internet communications have presented to courts and legislators, detailing how well-intentioned policymakers may have overreached in their efforts to protect victims in ways that threaten speech that is legitimate, and in some cases, valuable. Rich details of cases and controversies arising in the past decade illustrate the difficult tradeoffs in emergent online speech jurisprudence.” Daxton Stewart, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Texas Christian University; Editor of <> (2013)Table of ContentsPreface – Acknowledgment – Anti-Cyberbullying Laws: A Sober Analysis through the Moral Panic Theory Lens – Cyberbullying and Free Speech – The Unnecessary and Unjust Creation of Virtual Juvenile Delinquents – “Enclaves of Totalitarianism” – Censorship Redux: The 21st Century Attack on the First Amendment Right of Public Criticism by the Use of Cyberharassment, Cyberstalking and Online Impersonation Laws – Image Control: Who Loses When Teen Sexting and Revenge Porn Are Criminalized? – The Short Life and Quick Death of the First Cyberbullying Law in Canada (August 6, 2013–December 10, 2015) – Cases Index – Subject Index.
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Rowman & Littlefield Media Dictatorship
Book SynopsisMedia Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech outlines how the American media amasses enormous power and uses it to control every aspect of the people's livesincluding schools, elections, science, and freedom of thought. Even churches, supposedly answerable to God only, are now being influenced and controlled by media. This book discusses the devastating consequences of such control on democracy and our civilization, and then offers suggestions on what can be done to identify media propaganda and defend freedom of speech.The school system has always been the first line of defense for patriotism and democracy. It is important for teachers to understand the consequences of a powerful media that does not tolerate diversity of thought. This book will encourage teachers to cultivate independence of thought among students. School administrators, too, have a responsibility to ensure that school campuses are sanctuaries of freedom of thought where leadersTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Rise of Media DictatorshipChapter 2: Political CorrectnessChapter 3: How Media Dictatorship Undermines Modern CivilizationChapter 4: How the Media Influences ReligionChapter 5: Media Influence in SchoolsChapter 6: Hypocrisy of the Social Media PlatformsChapter 7: Final WordAbout the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield Media Dictatorship
Book SynopsisMedia Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech outlines how the American media amasses enormous power and uses it to control every aspect of the people's livesincluding schools, elections, science, and freedom of thought. Even churches, supposedly answerable to God only, are now being influenced and controlled by media. This book discusses the devastating consequences of such control on democracy and our civilization, and then offers suggestions on what can be done to identify media propaganda and defend freedom of speech.The school system has always been the first line of defense for patriotism and democracy. It is important for teachers to understand the consequences of a powerful media that does not tolerate diversity of thought. This book will encourage teachers to cultivate independence of thought among students. School administrators, too, have a responsibility to ensure that school campuses are sanctuaries of freedom of thought where leadersTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Rise of Media DictatorshipChapter 2: Political CorrectnessChapter 3: How Media Dictatorship Undermines Modern CivilizationChapter 4: How the Media Influences ReligionChapter 5: Media Influence in SchoolsChapter 6: Hypocrisy of the Social Media PlatformsChapter 7: Final WordAbout the Author
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Lexington Books Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body
Book SynopsisAlthough nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents a range of case studies: the legal aspects of sexualized public nudity as it relates to communication theory and the First Amendment; the controversies surrounding the work of photographer Jock Sturges; the public performance art of Milo Moiré; the topless protests of FEMEN; the social media activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy; the ritualized flashing during Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and the sexual displays of Folsom Street Fair, the largest leather pride festival. Taken together, these cases teach much about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.Table of ContentsPreface Foreword: The Day I Got (Almost) Naked in Public Chapter 1: Introduction: Visual Rhetoric and the Sexual Body Chapter 2: Nudity, Communication, and the First Amendment Chapter 3: The Naturist Photography of Jock Sturges Chapter 4: The Confrontational Nudity of Milo Moiré Chapter 5: FEMEN and the Rhetoric of Topless Protest Chapter 6: Aliaa Magda Elmahdy’s Retrieval of Shock Performance Art Chapter 7: Ritualistic Nudity During Mardi Gras Chapter 8: Leather Pride at the Folsom Street Fair Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Public Body Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC In and Out of View
Book SynopsisCatha Paquette is Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She is the author of At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts (2017). In essays published in and outside the US, she has investigated production and reception of Latin American art in Latin America and the US, including promotion, circulation, and acquisition by collectors, public agencies, and private institutions.Karen L. Kleinfelder is Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She is the author of The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze: Picasso's Pursuit of the Model (1993) and has been published in the exhibition catalogues Picasso: Inside the Image (1995) and Picasso and the Mediterranean (1996). As a specialist in modern and contemporary art and theory, her research interests focus on gender, psychoanalysis, and complexity theory.<Trade ReviewThis is a useful and complex book, an anthology that potently demystifies a broad array of recent histories of truly much more than censorship: in this volume, its range of contributors seek to interrogate, understand, and explain marginalization itself: of artists, of artworks, of underrepresented vantage points and histories, all jockeying for visibility within the often-unjust, market-driven heteropatriarchy that is the contemporary art world. * Jenni Sorkin, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of Art in California. *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, Catha Paquette (California State University Long Beach, USA), Karen Kleinfelder (California State University Long Beach, USA), and Christopher Miles (Independent Scholar, USA) PART I. DEADLY SERIOUS 1. Subjugated Knowledges, Revisionist Histories, and the Problem of Visibility: Carrie Mae Weems and Ken Gonzales-Day, Nizan Shaked (California State University Long Beach, USA) 2. Damage Control: Teresa Margolles, the Mexican Government, and the 2009 Venice Biennale Mexican Pavilion, Ana Garduño (National Institute for Fine Arts, Mexico) 3. Death Matters, Kerstin Mey (University of Limerick, Ireland) PART II. THE SEXUAL (IN)SIGHT 4. Art/Obscenity in West German Experimental Film, 1968-1972: Circulating through the Debates, Megan Hoetger (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 5. Impossible to Image: Art & Sexual Violence, 1975–1979, Angelique Szymanek (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA) 6. De-Shaming Shame, John Fleck (Actor and Performance Artist, USA) in Conversation with Kevin Duffy (Film Director, USA) 7. Only the Stupid Are Overt: Covert Censorship in the American Museum, Jonathan D. Katz (University of Pennyslvania, USA) PART III. UNDER DELIBERATION: ARTFUL ACTIVISM 8. Tucumán Arde and the Changing Face of Censorship, Fabián Cereijido (Independent Scholar, USA) 9. The Discursive Roots of Censorship: Neoliberalism’s Rendering of Chican@ Art, Karen Mary Davalos (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA) 10. Tools and Obstacles, Daniel Joseph Martínez (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Carol A. Wells (Independent Scholar, USA) in Conversation with Nizan Shaked (California State University Long Beach, USA) 11. Remaining in Sight: Andrea Bowers’ Art Lessons from Activists, Peter R. Kalb (Brandeis University, USA) PART IV. FRAMED: INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL CONSTRAINTS 12. In and Out of Sites: Disability and Access in the Work of Park McArthur and Carmen Papalia, Elizabeth Guffey (Purchase College, USA) 13. Culture, State, and Revolution: Arts Wars between Religious and Secular Autocracies in Post-Revolution Egypt, Sonali Pahwa (University of Minnesota, USA) and Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University, USA) 14. Knowing/Caring, Ai Weiwei (Artist and Activist) and Alexandra Munroe in Conversation (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA) PART V. CONTESTED OBJECTS: (RE)PRESENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE 15. Re-Indigenizing Native Space in a University Context, Craig Stone (California State University Long Beach, USA) 16. African Cultural Heritage: Erasure, Restitution and Digital Image Regimes, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 17. Censorship and Creative (Re)Production, Morehshin Allahyari (Artist and Activist, USA) in Conversation with Brittany Ransom (California State University Long Beach, USA) PART VI. MATTERS OF RACE 18. Provocation and Valuation Our Compliance and September 2015 Letter to The Spectrum, Ashley Powell (Artist and Activist, USA) Black Judge Takes the Stand: April 2016 Response, Kara Walker (Artist, USA) 2019 Reflections, Ashley Powell (Artist and Activist, USA) 19. Presentation/Representation: Creative Expression, Speech Rights, and Pedagogy, Jane Conoley (California State University Long Beach, USA), Maulana Karenga (California State University Long Beach, USA), Karen Kleinfelder (California State University Long Beach, USA), Cyrus Parker-Jeannette (Dancer/Choreographer, USA), Michele Roberge (Independent Scholar, USA), Elena Roznovan (Artist, USA) and Cintia Alejandra Segovia (Photographer, USA), Griselda Suarez (Long Beach Arts Council, USA), Andrew Vaca (California State University Long Beach, USA), Jaye Austin Williams (Bucknell University, USA), Terri Yamada (California State University Long Beach, USA) Afterwords, Svetlana Mintcheva (National Coalition Against Censorship, USA) and Laura Raicovitch (Independent Scholar, USA) in Conversation List of Contributors Index
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Skyhorse Publishing Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech
Book SynopsisIn Cancel Culture, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals and institutions at the ever-changing whims of social media-driven crowds. Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed “shoe‑on‑the‑other‑foot test,” to those who have been “cancelled” for any number of faults, both real and imagined.Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture—the rush to judgment and the devastating results it can have on those who may be innocent, the power of social media to effect punishment without a thorough examination of evidence, the idea that historical events can be viewed through the same lens as actions in the present day—he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech. In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in or concerned about cancel culture, its effects on our society, and its significance in a greater historical and political context.
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Skyhorse Publishing Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against
Book SynopsisExamining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country, Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate. The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper racial and gender norms and relations, has become commonplace. In a number of cases, the shaming is accompanied by calls for the offending individuals to lose their jobs, positions, or other status. Frequently, those targeted for “cancellation” simply do not know the latest, ever-changing norms (often related to language) that they are accused of transgressing—or they have honest questions about issues that have been deemed off-limits for debate and discussion. Cancel This Book offers a unique perspective from Dan Kovalik, a progressive author who supports the ongoing movements for racial and gender equality and justice, but who is concerned about the prevalence of “cancelling” people, and especially of people who are well-intentioned and who are themselves allied with these movements. While many progressives believe that “cancelling” others is a form of activism and holding others accountable, Cancel This Book argues that “cancellation” is oftentimes counter-productive and destructive of the very values which the “cancellers” claim to support. And indeed, we now see instances in the workplace where employers are using this spirt of “cancellation” to pit employees against each other, to exert more control over the workforce and to undermine worker and labor solidarity. Kovalik observes that many progressives are quietly opposed to this “Cancel Culture” and to many instances of “cancellation” they witness, but they are afraid to air these concerns publicly lest they themselves be “cancelled.” The result is the suppression of open debate about important issues involving racial and gender matters, and even issues related to how to best confront the current COVID-19 pandemic. While people speak in whispers about their true feelings about such issues, critical debate and discussion is avoided, resentments build, and the movement for justice and equality is ultimately disserved. Trade Review"The liberal proponents of cancel culture, as Dan Kovalik correctly points out, have become the Grand Inquisitors of speech. They wallow in a cloying self-righteousness while at the same time they refuse, either because of cowardice or ineptitude, to confront the real centers of power—the array of intelligence agencies that monitor and watch us 24 hours a day, the rampant out-of-control militarism, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the bankrupt corporate media outlets that amplify their petty moral absolutism. The proponents of cancel culture are part of the American burlesque of anti-politics masquerading as politics.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour “The strongest case against cancel culture should come from liberals and progressives who treasure freedom of speech and due process. Unfortunately, too many of them are asleep at the wheel. Not so Kovalik, who makes a strong liberal argument against the cancer of cancel culture.”—Alan Dershowitz, author of Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process “Thankfully, Kovalik helps to cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling . . . just when such truth-telling is so desperately needed.”—Oliver Stone, author and Academy Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter “Kovalik offers an unflinching and desperately needed critique, not only of cancel culture, but also of the US left, which has largely forsaken class struggle for identity politics and political correctness.”—Greg Godels, writer covering political economy, current events, and philosophy “Dan Kovalik’s latest is a much-needed, laudable enterprise, courageously sounding the alarm about a tyranny being perpetrated in the name of moral and social renewal. . . . Cancel culture is militantly aggressive, unforgiving, ruthless, aimed at vilification and final extirpation of anyone who disagrees with or in any way resists its unbending, non-negotiable agenda.” —John Rachel, Dissident Voice Cancel This Book, takes aim at the domestic progressive scene and its ‘cancel culture’ aberration. . . . In his personable and anecdotal style, Kovalik compellingly revisits some of the better-known excesses of cancel culture. . . . Cancel is full of gems unearthed by Kovalik. . . . I look forward to the next book from the perceptive and prolific Dan Kovalik, which could go further and illuminate the dynamics of the underlying forces rising at this historical junction associated with the bankruptcy of liberalism and the failure of neoliberalism to serve its constituents.—Roger Harris, Counterpunch
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Skyhorse Publishing Behind the Mask of Facebook: A Whistleblower’s
Book SynopsisRyan Hartwig may be one of the most important figures in American history. Hired by Cognizant as a content moderator for Facebook, Ryan Hartwig began by keeping gruesome images of cartel violence in Mexico off the platform. This seemed like a righteous mission and yet, as time went by, it became clear the Facebook bosses saw an even bigger threat, Americans of a different political viewpoint. Ryan watched in horror as Facebook made a monumental shift after the 2016 elections, hiring thousands of US-based content moderators with one mission, to favor leftist viewpoints while suppressing the speech of conservatives. Ryan describes more than forty examples of such behavior, and it will radically rewrite your understanding of the past four years as you learn how the news regarding prominent individuals like Greta Thunberg, Alyssa Milano, and Don Lemon was censored to remove legitimate criticism of them. Viral videos of Trump supporters being attacked were removed from the platform, and moderators were told to look for signs of hate speech in Trumps' State of the Union addresses, while at the same time allowing vicious attacks against police, pro-lifers, and straight white males. As America's de-facto town square, Facebook was systematically suppressing free speech, which has traditionally been our country's greatest weapon to combat extremism from either side. Ryan knew he had to take action, and contacted Project Veritas, eventually filming many of these actions with a hidden camera for the world to see. We need to stand up against tech tyranny and corporations that attempt to control our conversations, our news, and our political narratives. Reading Behind the Mask of Facebook: A Whistleblower’s Shocking Story of Big Tech Bias and Censorship is the first step to learning how to confront and defeat this tyranny.
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Skyhorse Publishing Dershowitz Family Saga: A Century and a Half of
Book SynopsisThe Dershowitz Family Saga traces the significant modern events for world Jewry from the perspective of one immigrant family: their Galician origins in the 19th century; their Americanization and tribulations in the Goldene Medina; the tragedy of World War II and the Holocaust; the establishment of the State of Israel; the fall of communism; and the mass immigrations to Israel from Russia and Ethiopia. It takes the reader from Pilzno to the Lower East Side, from Brooklyn to Jerusalem. The aliyah of many family members before, during, and after the Six-Day War led to their involvement in the absorption of Ethiopian, Soviet, and former Crypto-Jews into the nascent state. The intellectual and spiritual heritage of the Dershowitz family is an American-Israeli success story. The author's grandfather established the first Hassidic congregation in Brooklyn; his father conceived Yeshiva Torah Vodaath; a brother served on the European front but his gun ended up with the Haganah; his nephew is the outspoken civil libertarian and advocate of Israel, Alan Dershowitz. A fascinating journey around the world through Zecharia Dor-Shav’s unique lens.
£22.49
Manchester University Press Beyond the Bbfc
Book SynopsisThis work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship activity is drawn. -- .
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Bristol University Press Perspectives on Whistleblowing
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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.
£22.49
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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Rowman & Littlefield Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Book SynopsisRequests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions. Trade ReviewEmily Knox's book will prove to be important for those striving to understand challengers of books in school and public libraries. By taking their words seriously and situating them in useful theoretical frameworks, she provides a handle by which to grasp their world views. Knox's work adds not only to the scholarship on reading but also to the professional toolkit of librarians. -- Louise S. Robbins, Professor Emerita, School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-MadisonEmily Knox has already gained a national reputation for her expertise in this area of scholarship. This book will be a crucial addition to our knowledge of how censorship "works" in this century. -- Barbara M. Jones, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual FreedomTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: Trusting the SystemChapter 2: Power and KnowledgeChapter 3: Perfect TimingChapter 4: Moral declineChapter 5: Reading Should Edify the SoulChapter 6: Fear, Knowledge and PowerAppendix 1: Methodological NoteAppendix 1.1: General Google AlertsAppendix 1.2: Case Specific Google AlertsAppendix 2: Sample Request for ReconsiderationAppendix 3: Chart of Challenge CasesBibliography
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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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Center Street Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy
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Center Street Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy
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Center Street Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants
Book Synopsis This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read: Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online 'shadow banning' to rampant 'political correctness.'In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online 'shadow banning' to fake accusations of 'hate speech.' No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read! Trump, Jr. writes about the importance of fighting back and standing up for what you believe in. From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump's administration, Donald Trump, Jr. spares no details and delivers a book that focuses on success, perseverance, and determination.
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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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Encounter Books,USA Countdown to Socialism
Book SynopsisThis pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America. On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people? That’s easy—it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated. In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view. Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”—it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents. In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism. About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.
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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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Academic Studies Press Israel's Failed Response to the Armenian
Book SynopsisWhen the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit, demanding the same of the then forthcoming First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. This book follows the author's gutsy campaign against the Israeli government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the face of censorship. A political whodunit based on previously secret Israel Foreign Ministry cables, this book investigates Israel's overall tragically unjust relationships to genocides of other peoples.Charny also closely examines Elie Wiesel, who remains a great hero but is seen also as interfering with recognition of other peoples' genocidal tragedies, and Shimon Peres, who opposed recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Additional chapters by three famous leaders—a Turk (Ragip Zarakolu), an Armenian (Richard Hovannisian), and a Jew (Michael Berenbaum)—provide added perspectives.Trade Review“In Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide, Charny… revisits the [First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide], attempts by the Foreign Ministry to torpedo it, and issues a scathing indictment of Israel’s refusal, then and now, to officially recognize genocidal wars against other peoples. … [S]erious consideration of Charny’s claim – ‘the basic and horrendous commonality’ in all genocides, including the Armenian tragedy, should override obsessions about uniqueness and a consensus definition of the ‘category name’ – is as urgently necessary as it has ever been. … Charny makes a compelling case that the principal reason Israeli leaders opposed the conference was their determination to keep the Holocaust, the ‘unbearable cataclysmic tragedy’ of the Jewish people, ‘at the ultimate untouchable apex of a hierarchy of genocidal suffering... the greatest evil ever seen in human history.’ … Irrepressibly candid and combative at age 91, Charny has thrown down the gauntlet.”— Glenn C. Altschuler, The Jerusalem Post“Charny, one of the founders of the modern study of genocide and a strong fighter for the Armenians against the denial of their genocide by the Turks, does many things in this relatively short book [including] a denunciation of Israel’s support of nations and leaders who have committed genocidal acts. This brilliant book by a scholar and activist … tells a tale full of flame and fury but with a wisdom accumulated over nearly a century of living the ethics that he upholds—Charny is indefatigable, relentless and humanitarian.” —Jack Nusan Porter, The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefaceOne is Either for Human Life or NotForewordWho Really Lied? The Turks, Armenians, and Jews Revisited Yair Auron IntroductionSummary: The “Good Guys” (Israel) Turn Out to be the Bigger LiarsChapter 1: The First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in June 1982 in Tel Aviv Was a Milestone Event on Many Levels Supplement 1: Program of Conference—How does One Summarize the Learning that Took Place at the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide? Supplement 2: Responses of Participants in the First International Conference on the Holocaust and GenocideSupplement 3: Press and Other Public Responses to the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, June 1982Supplement 4: “Their Holocaust,” Amos Elon, Haaretz, June 11, 1982Chapter 2: The Conference Really Did Take Place and Very MeaningfullySupplement: Letters Confronting Prime Minister Shimon Peres who Opposed the Conference, and in Later Years Continued Opposition to Recognizing the Armenian GenocideChapter 3: What was Elie Wiesel’s Real Position about the Armenians and about Addressing the Genocides of Many Non-Jewish Peoples Alongside the Holocaust?Supplement: Gallery of Correspondence with Elie WieselChapter 4: Critique: How Should We Have Handled the Threats to Jewish Lives? Chapter 5: Israel’s Tragically Immoral Denials of, and indifference to, the Genocides of Other PeoplesChapter 6: Israel’s Denial-Concealment of the Cruelty, Genocidal Expulsions, and Massacres of Arabs in the Nonetheless Entirely Just War of Independence: A Striking Chapter of the Universal Challenge to All Peoples to Respect and Protect LifeThree Contemporary Updates: The Voices of a Distinguished Contemporary Turk, an Armenian, and a JewChapter 7: A Contemporary Turk: Ragip Zarakolu—The Banality of DenialChapter 8: A Contemporary Armenian: Richard G. Hovannisian: The Armenian Genocide and Extreme Denial Chapter 9: A Contemporary Jew: Michael Berenbaum—The Armenian Genocide, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and IsraelChapter 10: Israel’s Continuing Denial of the Armenian GenocideRaphael Ahren, “Why Israel Still Refuses to Recognize a Century-Old Genocide,” Times of Israel, April 24, 2015Israel Charny with Yair Auron, “If Not Now, When Will Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide?,” California Courier January 9, 2020Supplementary Chapter 11: Marc I. Sherman: Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem—Highlights of the Story of the First Institute on Genocide in the WorldAfterwordStanding Up for Truth and Justice against Excessive Power Acknowledgments and Heartfelt ThanksAbout the AuthorIndexTen Commandments for Sovereign Nations and Genocide Scholars Samuel Totten
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Academic Studies Press Israel's Failed Response to the Armenian
Book SynopsisWhen the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit, demanding the same of the then forthcoming First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. This book follows the author's gutsy campaign against the Israeli government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the face of censorship. A political whodunit based on previously secret Israel Foreign Ministry cables, this book investigates Israel's overall tragically unjust relationships to genocides of other peoples.Charny also closely examines Elie Wiesel, who remains a great hero but is seen also as interfering with recognition of other peoples' genocidal tragedies, and Shimon Peres, who opposed recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Additional chapters by three famous leaders—a Turk (Ragip Zarakolu), an Armenian (Richard Hovannisian), and a Jew (Michael Berenbaum)—provide added perspectives.Trade Review“In Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide, Charny… revisits the [First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide], attempts by the Foreign Ministry to torpedo it, and issues a scathing indictment of Israel’s refusal, then and now, to officially recognize genocidal wars against other peoples. … [S]erious consideration of Charny’s claim – ‘the basic and horrendous commonality’ in all genocides, including the Armenian tragedy, should override obsessions about uniqueness and a consensus definition of the ‘category name’ – is as urgently necessary as it has ever been. … Charny makes a compelling case that the principal reason Israeli leaders opposed the conference was their determination to keep the Holocaust, the ‘unbearable cataclysmic tragedy’ of the Jewish people, ‘at the ultimate untouchable apex of a hierarchy of genocidal suffering... the greatest evil ever seen in human history.’ … Irrepressibly candid and combative at age 91, Charny has thrown down the gauntlet.”— Glenn C. Altschuler, The Jerusalem Post“Charny, one of the founders of the modern study of genocide and a strong fighter for the Armenians against the denial of their genocide by the Turks, does many things in this relatively short book [including] a denunciation of Israel’s support of nations and leaders who have committed genocidal acts. This brilliant book by a scholar and activist … tells a tale full of flame and fury but with a wisdom accumulated over nearly a century of living the ethics that he upholds—Charny is indefatigable, relentless and humanitarian.” —Jack Nusan Porter, The Jerusalem PostTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPrefaceOne is Either for Human Life or NotForewordWho Really Lied? The Turks, Armenians, and Jews Revisited Yair Auron IntroductionSummary: The “Good Guys” (Israel) Turn Out to be the Bigger LiarsChapter 1: The First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in June 1982 in Tel Aviv Was a Milestone Event on Many Levels Supplement 1: Program of Conference—How does One Summarize the Learning that Took Place at the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide? Supplement 2: Responses of Participants in the First International Conference on the Holocaust and GenocideSupplement 3: Press and Other Public Responses to the First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, June 1982Supplement 4: “Their Holocaust,” Amos Elon, Haaretz, June 11, 1982Chapter 2: The Conference Really Did Take Place and Very MeaningfullySupplement: Letters Confronting Prime Minister Shimon Peres who Opposed the Conference, and in Later Years Continued Opposition to Recognizing the Armenian GenocideChapter 3: What was Elie Wiesel’s Real Position about the Armenians and about Addressing the Genocides of Many Non-Jewish Peoples Alongside the Holocaust?Supplement: Gallery of Correspondence with Elie WieselChapter 4: Critique: How Should We Have Handled the Threats to Jewish Lives? Chapter 5: Israel’s Tragically Immoral Denials of, and indifference to, the Genocides of Other PeoplesChapter 6: Israel’s Denial-Concealment of the Cruelty, Genocidal Expulsions, and Massacres of Arabs in the Nonetheless Entirely Just War of Independence: A Striking Chapter of the Universal Challenge to All Peoples to Respect and Protect LifeThree Contemporary Updates: The Voices of a Distinguished Contemporary Turk, an Armenian, and a JewChapter 7: A Contemporary Turk: Ragip Zarakolu—The Banality of DenialChapter 8: A Contemporary Armenian: Richard G. Hovannisian: The Armenian Genocide and Extreme Denial Chapter 9: A Contemporary Jew: Michael Berenbaum—The Armenian Genocide, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and IsraelChapter 10: Israel’s Continuing Denial of the Armenian GenocideRaphael Ahren, “Why Israel Still Refuses to Recognize a Century-Old Genocide,” Times of Israel, April 24, 2015Israel Charny with Yair Auron, “If Not Now, When Will Israel Recognize the Armenian Genocide?,” California Courier January 9, 2020Supplementary Chapter 11: Marc I. Sherman: Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem—Highlights of the Story of the First Institute on Genocide in the WorldAfterwordStanding Up for Truth and Justice against Excessive Power Acknowledgments and Heartfelt ThanksAbout the AuthorIndexTen Commandments for Sovereign Nations and Genocide Scholars Samuel Totten
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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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Lexington Books Media and Nigeria's Constitutional Democracy:
Book SynopsisIn this edited collection, contributors analyze how the media is navigating Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, and its mediated democracy. Despite its constitutional role, recognizable as the fourth estate of the realm, the Nigerian media has a history of confronting daunting challenges headlong. This book captures an array of the challenges faced, from British colonialism and military rule to democratic dispensation. Ordinarily, democracy is purposefully streamlined to elevate freedom of expression to an inalienable right and a necessary corollary of democracy. Yet, media freedom in Nigeria has been tortuous and nebulous, and there is a paradoxical difference in how the state relies on the media for partnership while also obstructing accountable journalism that would hold the state and the media itself accountable. The editors provide a poignant outlook of the onerous interactions and dialectics of media and democracy, and the cascading state power. Contributors argue for open democratic deliberations, civic space, and freedom of the press, all rooted in public good. Scholars of journalism, political communication, media studies, and African studies will find this book of particular interest.Trade Review"The work explores critical dimensions of freedom and unfreedom, within the context of constitutional democracy, through Nigeria's prism. This is helpful to the expansion of understanding of the increasingly complex concept of liberties, in the spaces and places of democracy; and in the mixed messages of actors within. It is, therefore, a significant entrant into the literature on constitutional democracy, and the shifting question of freedom, which should have otherwise been stable, given the fact that liberty is ideally envisaged in a democracy." -- Abiodun Adeniyi, Baze UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionPaul Obi, Taye C. Obateru and Sam AmadiChapter 2: Assessing the Legal Protection of Freedom of the Press in Nigeria’s Constitutional DemocracySam AmadiChapter 3: Media Censorship of Nigerian Presidential Elections: Navigating Candidates, Campaigns and the Monitory Democracy TheoryPaul ObiChapter 4: Who Watches the Watchdog? Ethical Interrogation of Self-Censorship of Nigerian MediaTaye C. ObateruChapter 5: The Shrinking Civic Space: Journalistic Hazards, Risks and Media Resistance to Censorship in NigeriaBridget Onochie, Lasisi Olagunju, Paul Ogwu and Paul ObiChapter 6: National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and Media Regulation in an Age of Information FluidityIgomu OnojaChapter 7: Walking the Tight Rope of National Security: Interrogating Public Interest to Know vs Security Implications of Media CoverageIbrahim Uba Yusuf, Senator Iroegbu and Brigadier General Sani K. Usman (Rtd)Chapter 8: Technology, Internet, Social Media and the Politics of Online Free Speech in NigeriaJoseph Nwanja ChukwuChapter 9: Deconstructing the Fourth Estate Ideals and the Quest for Free Speech: A Study of Nigeria's Minister of Information on the Role of the MediaJoe Babalola BankoleChapter 10: ConclusionTaye C. Obateru, Sam Amadi and Paul Obi About the Contributors
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Simon & Schuster The Indispensable Right
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