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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Freedom of information & freedom of speech
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases
essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose
areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation,
alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions
and literatures. Co-edited by TCU colleagues Rima Abunasser and
Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle for giving
dignity and depth to the peoples of these regions by celebrating
courageous voices of freedom trying to respond to fundamental,
often devastating, changes on the ground, including the Arab
Spring, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the rise of the Islamic
State. Writing in both the first- and third-person, essayists offer
deeply moving portraits of voices that cry out for freedom in
chaotic, and often violent, circumstances. Voices of Freedom is
aimed at college classes that address the many ways in which
freedom intersects with politics, religion, and other elements in
the societies of these dynamic and diverse regions. It will serve
as a valuable primary source for college teachers interested in
exploring with their students the struggle for freedom in
non-Western and transnational cultural contexts. The volume is also
meant to attract other audiences, including readers from the
general public interested in learning about inspirational people
from parts of the world about which Americans and other
English-speaking peoples are generally unfamiliar.
FDR's Four Freedoms-Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom
from Want, and Freedom from Fear-were presented to the American
people in his 1941 State of the Union address, and they became the
inspiration for a second bill of rights, extending the New Deal and
guaranteeing work, housing, medical care, and education. Although
the bill never was adopted in a legal sense in this country, its
principles pervaded the political landscape for an entire
generation, including the War on Poverty and the Great Society
reforms of the 1960s. Furthermore, the ideas expressed in the Four
Freedoms speech inspired the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
But since the late 1970s and early 1980s, these freedoms have been
under assault, from administrations of both parties, economic
pressures, and finally, the alleged requirements of national
security. After 9/11, this process accelerated even more rapidly.
The authors address the hard questions of individual freedom versus
national security that are on the minds of Americans of all
political stripes. They bring together the pivotal events, leaders,
policies, and fateful decisions-often pathbreaking, more often
ending in folly-that have subverted our constitutional government
from its founding. "You reach the inescapable conclusion," the
authors write, "that the United States is a warrior nation, has
been addicted to war from the start, and is able to sustain its
warfare habit only by mugging American taxpayers, and believing in
its mission as God's chosen." With a foreword by Barbara
Ehrenreich, a journalist, activist, and the author of "Nickel and
Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America."
Is academic freedom threatened? The book examines current
challenges to academic freedom in Europe, focusing mainly on Italy
and Germany. The cases discussed demonstrate that research and
teaching are under pressure in European democracies: in Hungary and
Poland due to political constraints, in other countries due to
societal expectations. Considering different interrelated aspects,
the four parts of the book explore many real and potential threats
to universities, scientific institutions and researchers, ranging
from the European dimension of freedom of the arts and sciences to
comparative analysis of emerging challenges to academic freedom
against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. They highlight
threats to university autonomy from the economic orientation of
university governance, which emphasizes efficiency, competition,
and external evaluation, and from new rules concerning trigger
warnings, speech restrictions, and ethics commissions. Detailed
study of these complex threats is intended to stimulate scholarly
reflection and elicit serious discussion at European and national
level. The volume contributes to the search for a new role of
universities and scientific institutions and is addressed to
academics and political stakeholders.
How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship
between the European Union and the United States and what this
means for the future We live in an interconnected world, where
security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and
globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the
world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule
systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over
freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the
European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems
in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how
their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic
relationship. The transatlantic struggle over freedom and security
has usually been depicted as a clash between a peace-loving
European Union and a belligerent United States. Henry Farrell and
Abraham Newman demonstrate how this misses the point. The real
dispute was between two transnational coalitions-one favoring
security, the other liberty-whose struggles have reshaped the
politics of surveillance, e-commerce, and privacy rights. Looking
at three large security debates in the period since 9/11, involving
Passenger Name Record data, the SWIFT financial messaging
controversy, and Edward Snowden's revelations, the authors examine
how the powers of border-spanning coalitions have waxed and waned.
Globalization has enabled new strategies of action, which security
agencies, interior ministries, privacy NGOs, bureaucrats, and other
actors exploit as circumstances dictate. The first serious study of
how the politics of surveillance has been transformed, Of Privacy
and Power offers a fresh view of the role of information and power
in a world of economic interdependence.
In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov
argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds
devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were
promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle
East's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook activism, technology would
spread democracy and bring us together as never before. We couldn't
have been more wrong. In The Net Delusion Evgeny Morozov shows why
internet freedom is an illusion. Not only that - in many cases the
net is actually helping oppressive regimes to stifle dissent, track
dissidents and keep people pacified, with companies such as Google
and Amazon helping them do it. This book shows that free
information doesn't mean free people - and that, right now,
everyone's liberty is at stake. 'Offers a rare note of wisdom and
common sense, on an issue overwhelmed by digital utopians' Malcolm
Gladwell 'Passionate, admirable and important' Observer 'The book
is a wake-up call to those who think the internet is the solution
to all our problems' Daily Telegraph 'A delight ... his demolition
job on the embarrassments of "internet freedom" is comprehensive'
Independent 'A compelling rebuff ... required reading for everyone'
Sunday Times 'Piercing ... convincing ... timely' Financial Times
Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs
the magazine's influential and widely-quoted 'Net Effect' blog
about the Internet's impact on global politics. Morozov is
currently a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of
Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
World War I, given all the rousing "Over-There" songs and
in-the-trenches films it inspired, was, at its outset, surprisingly
unpopular with the American public. As opposition increased,
Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration became intent on
stifling antiwar dissent. In his absorbing new book, Eric Chester
reveals that out of this turmoil came a heated public discussion on
the theory of civil liberties-the basic freedoms that are,
theoretically, untouchable by any of the three branches of the U.S.
government. The famous "clear and present danger" argument of
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the "balance of
conflicting interest" theory of law professor Zechariah Chafee, for
example, evolved to provide a rationale for courts to act as a
limited restraint on autocratic actions of the government. But
Chester goes further, to examine an alternative theory: civil
liberties exist as absolute rights, rather than being dependent on
the specific circumstances of each case. Over the years, the debate
about the right to dissent has intensified and become more
necessary. This fascinating book explains why, a century after the
First World War-and in the era of Trump-we need to know about this.
This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by
critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.
Unlike most theories that justify free speech on single grounds,
this book argues for a justification; namely the double grounded
principled approach; that combines and revises the arguments of
equal autonomy and democratic participation at the same time. It
claims that a revised and critical blending of these two
justifications can serve free speech to be grounded on strong
principled arguments. The book has both a theoretical and practical
focus: first, it discusses the conceptual circumstances of free
speech and major theoretical justifications for free speech and
then, it applies the developed theoretical framework to the cases
of academic freedom, media freedom and hate speech separately. This
volume will appeal to readers who are interested in general free
speech theories as well as readers who look for an alternative view
on specific topics such as academic freedom, media freedom and hate
speech.
Free speech and freedom of the press were often suppressed amid the
social turbulence of the Progressive Era and World War I. As
muckrakers, feminists, pacifists, anarchists, socialists, and
communists were arrested or censored for their outspoken views,
many of them turned to a Manhattan lawyer named Gilbert Roe to keep
them in business and out of jail. Roe was the principal trial
lawyer of the Free Speech League-a precursor of the American Civil
Liberties Union. His cases involved such activists as Emma Goldman,
Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair,
John Reed, and Eugene Debs, as well as the socialist magazine The
Masses and the New York City Teachers Union. A friend of
Wisconsin's progressive senator Robert La Follette since their law
partnership as young men, Roe defended "Fighting Bob" when the
Senate tried to expel him for opposing America's entry into World
War I. In articulating and upholding Americans' fundamental right
to free expression against charges of obscenity, libel, espionage,
sedition, or conspiracy during turbulent times, Roe was rarely
successful in the courts. But his battles illuminate the evolution
of free speech doctrine and practice in an era when it was under
heavy assault. His greatest victory, including the 1917 decision by
Judge Learned Hand in The Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten, is still
influential today.
Voltaire's comment--"I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it"--is frequently quoted by
defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find someone prepared
to defend all freedom of speech, especially if the views expressed
are obnoxious or obviously false. So where do we draw the line? How
important is our right to freedom of speech? In this accessible and
up-to-date Very Short Introduction, Nigel Warburton covers a wide
range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial
and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. The book
offers a concise guide to many of the vexing issues concerning our
right to speak freely, including: Should a civilized society set
limits on freedom of speech? How can we balance free speech with
the sensitivities of religious and minority groups? How have
digital technology and the Internet changed the debate?
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of
life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the
newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about
the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from
philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year
About This Issue The internet has not only been a revolution for
free speech - it's reinvented censorship. Cyber utopia has brought
with it new forms of control - and it's not just authoritarian
regimes that are limiting access to what we read and watch.
Democracies are also curbing our right to information, whether in
the name of child protection or copyright. Index on Censorship
takes a close look at the new rules of the game, with contributions
from bloggers, activists, journalists and experts around the world.
About Index on Censorship From 2010 SAGE is proud to be the
publisher of Index on Censorship, the award-winning magazine
devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International
in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index reports on free expression
violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a
light on vital free expression issues through original, accessible
and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the
world's finest writers. Published four times a year (March, June,
September, December), Index is available via annual subscription or
to purchase on an issue-by-issue basis. Forthcoming 2010 issues:
Free Speech and Music; Radio and the Promotion of Free Expression
This book attempts to analyse the concept of religious expression
vis-a-vis freedom of speech in Malaysia from the philosophical,
political and theoretical perspectives. It begins by discussing the
major sources of religious expression that are firmly rooted in the
societal and religious beliefs, constitution and legislation of the
country. It also examines multiple facets of the Islamization
policy in the country and to what extent such policy affects the
exercise of domestic religious expression. The problems and
challenges of domestic religious expression, theoretically and
practically, will also be examined including the issues of
radicalization and terrorism. After a change of power from the
Barisan Nasional (BN) to Pakatan Harapan (PH) in 2018, this book
attempts to explain PH's approach in dealing with the issue of
Islam and religious expression in Malaysia. Lastly, this book
intends to identify and observe how Malaysian society and the state
react to the issue of religious expression.
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