From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler
colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and
migration debates, ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target
racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled
Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent
consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary
cultural politics, and explores the possibilities to combat racism
when liberal values underpin emboldened white supremacy. What kind
of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an
interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social
expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an
inflation of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore, how do
such forms refuse the idea that language can be a performative act
from which harm can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and
shaped the subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants,
reproducing new and problematic forms of precarity. These
vulnerabilities have been experienced from the sound of rubber
bullets in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to UK hate speech
legislation, to the spontaneous performace of a First Nations war
dance on the Australian Rules football pitch. This book identifies
the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the
longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’
typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the
possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are
‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of
Media & Cultural Studies.
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