The free speech wars

Charlotte Lydia Riley is a Lecturer in twentieth-century British history at the University of Southampton

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.

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 shouldn't 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-Marxist's 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