The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does it Matter? by Charlotte L

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Free Speech Wars by Charlotte Lydia Riley This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as well as providing a strong historical and comparative context. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as well as providing a strong historical and comparative context. -- . Flap Who gets to exercise free speech, and what happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced? Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book explores the contemporary free speech wars to try to understand how this issue has become increasingly charged. It asks how the spaces and structures of speech - mass media, the lecture theatre, the public event, the political rally and the internet - shape this debate. The contributors examine how acts such as censorship, boycotts, and protests around free speech developed historically and how these histories inform the present. The book explores the opposing sides in this debate: beginning with a defence of speech freedoms and examining how speech has been curbed and controlled, before countering this with an exploration of the way that free speech has been weaponised and deployed as a bad faith argument by people wishing to commit harm. Considering two key battlefields in the free speech wars - the university campus and the internet - this book encourages the reader to be suspicious of the way that this topic is framed in the media today. The free speech wars offers context, provocation, stimulation and - hopefully - a route through this conflict. Author Biography Charlotte Lydia Riley is a Lecturer in twentieth-century British history at the University of Southampton Table of Contents Introduction – Charlotte Lydia RileyProtecting freedom of speech1 Protecting the freedom of speech - Jodie Ginsberg2 Open air free speech: the past, present, and future of Speakers Corner - Edward Packard3 The problem of neutrality and intellectual freedom: the case of libraries - Sam Popowich4 In a diverse society, is freedom of speech realisable? - Emma Harvey, co-written and edited by Edson Burton5 Training readers as censors in Nazi Germany - Victoria Stiles6 Is boycotting for or against free speech? - Andrew PhemisterFree speech as a weapon7 Why (and how) anti-racists should defend free speech (and why they shouldnt describe their opponents as free speech defenders) - Omar Khan8 Drinking the hemlock: Socrates and free speech - Neville Morley9 Secularism, Islamophobia and free speech in France - Imen Neffati10 The logic of nonsense - Nina Lyon11 Weaponised Swissness - Janna Kraus12 Free speech and the British press - Aaron AckerleyFree speech on campus13 Free speech and preventing radicalisation in higher education - Shaun McDaid and Catherine McGlynn14 Anatomy of a trigger warning scandal - Gabriel Moshenska15 Grad school as conversion therapy: "free speech" and the rights of trans and non binary people on university campuses - Grace Lavery16 Teaching Freedom of Speech freely - Paul Whickman17 The politicisation of campus free speech in Portugal - Adam Standring, Daniel Cardoso and António Dias18 Free speech on campus – Marta SantivanezThe internet: The Wild West of free speech19 A post-modern neo-Marxists guide to free speech - Ben Whitham20 Free speech and online masculinity movements - Henry S. Price21 Choose your fighter: loyalty and fandom in the free speech culture wars - Penny Andrews22 Free speech in the online marketplace of ideas - Helen Pallett Review If youd like to understand what on earth is really going on when politicians and commentators these days pontificate about "censorship", "cancel culture", "no-platforming", "safe spaces" and the rest, its an excellent place to start.The GuardianThis collection of essays by an eclectic group of mostly European scholars is not a legalistic examination of free speech court cases and legislation. Instead, it examines free speech issues from philosophical, historical, and sociological perspectives. There are no references to legal scholars but rather to such thinkers as JÜrgen Habermas, Socrates, and Voltaire, among others. The book is neatly organized into four sections dealing with threats to free speech, the use of free speech as a weapon, the role of universities in the free speech debate, and the internet as the Wild West of free speech. Readers will find that many of the essays can serve as conversation starters for contemporary topics, such as free speechs relationship to racism, trigger warnings, and marginalized groups. A recurring theme across many essays is the use of free speech by the powerful as a tool of oppression. This book provides useful criticism through a European perspective unfamiliar to most American students.Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students.D. Caristi, Ball State University, CHOICE 60.1 (September 2022) -- . Long Description This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as well as providing a strong historical and comparative context. -- . Review Quote If youd like to understand what on earth is really going on when politicians and commentators these days pontificate about "censorship", "cancel culture", "no-platforming", "safe spaces" and the rest, its an excellent place to start.The Guardian Description for Sales People -Will give the interested public the tools to understand what is meant by free speech, how it is being used and why.-Provides both cutting edge commentary and informed historical context.-Covers a broad variety of environments and situations, including those beyond the UK and USA. Details ISBN1526151162 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1526151162 ISBN-13 9781526151162 Short Title The Free Speech Wars Language English Format Paperback Pages 296 Publication Date 2020-11-20 DEWEY 323.443 Author Charlotte Lydia Riley UK Release Date 2020-11-20 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-11-20 Subtitle How Did We Get Here and Why Does it Matter? Edited by Charlotte Lydia Riley Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-11-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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