Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

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Freedoms of Speech

Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

Edited by: Matei Candea , Taras Fedirko , Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life

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This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens.

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Candea Matei :

Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Fedirko Taras :

Taras Fedirko is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Heywood Paolo :

Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor of social anthropology at Durham University.
Wright Fiona :

Fiona Wright is a research fellow at the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Sociolinguistics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright Open Access Download PDF	1
PART ONE Traditions and Comparisons
1 Comparing Freedoms: “Liberal Freedom of Speech” in Frontal and Lateral Perspective Matei Candea Open Access Download PDF	33
2 When Speech Isn’t Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle Webb Keane Open Access Download PDF	55
3 Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam Jack Sidnell Open Access Download PDF	73
4 Risking Speech in Islam Ali-Reza Bhojani Open Access Download PDF	94
5 Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump Fenella Cannell Open Access Download PDF	111
6 Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave Paolo Heywood Open Access Download PDF	131
7 The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of “Free Speech” in Putin-Era Russia caroline humphrey Open Access Download PDF	148
PART TWO Extending the Politics of Free Speech
8 Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary Susan Gal Open Access Download PDF	167
9 Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority when Egalitarians Embrace the State Rupert Stasch Open Access Download PDF	188
10 Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique Natalie Morningstar Open Access Download PDF	210
11 The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit Harri Englund Open Access Download PDF	225
12 Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of Movement Amahl Bishara Open Access Download PDF	239
PART THREE Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling
13 Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism Heonik Kwon Open Access Download PDF	257
14 Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society Adam Reed Open Access Download PDF	267
15 As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising Andreas Bandak Open Access Download PDF	287
16 Historical Vertigo: Art, Censorship, and the Contested History of Bangladesh Lotte Hoek Open Access Download PDF	302
PART FOUR Therapies, Individual and Collective
17 Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception Michael Lempert Open Access Download PDF	319
18 An American Canard: The Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech E. Summerson Carr Open Access Download PDF	344
19 Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK Fiona Wright Open Access Download PDF	360
20 Secrecy, Curse, Psychiatrist, Saint: Scandals of Sexuality and Censorship in Global/Indian Publics Sarah Pinto Open Access Download PDF	371
References Open Access Download PDF	391
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	443
Index Open Access Download PDF	449

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December 16, 2024

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9781487552978

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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487552978

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Keywords for this book

freedom of speech; linguistics; ethics; speech debates; defamation; press freedom; politics of free speech; human rights; free speech Islam; fascism; free speech Russia; dissent; censorship; censors

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

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