Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech 1
5. PART ONE Traditions and Comparisons
6. 1 Comparing Freedoms: “Liberal Freedom of Speech” in Frontal and Lateral Perspective 33
7. 2 When Speech Isn’t Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle 55
8. 3 Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam 73
9. 4 Risking Speech in Islam 94
10. 5 Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump 111
11. 6 Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave 131
12. 7 The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of “Free Speech” in Putin-Era Russia 148
13. PART TWO Extending the Politics of Free Speech
14. 8 Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary 167
15. 9 Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority when Egalitarians Embrace the State 188
16. 10 Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique 210
17. 11 The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit 225
18. 12 Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of Movement 239
19. PART THREE Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling
20. 13 Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism 257
21. 14 Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society 267
22. 15 As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising 287
23. 16 Historical Vertigo: Art, Censorship, and the Contested History of Bangladesh 302
24. PART FOUR Therapies, Individual and Collective
25. 17 Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception 319
26. 18 An American Canard: The Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech 344
27. 19 Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK 360
28. 20 Secrecy, Curse, Psychiatrist, Saint: Scandals of Sexuality and Censorship in Global/Indian Publics 371
29. References 391
30. Contributors 443
31. Index 449