Freedoms of speech : anthropological perspectives on language, ethics, and power / edited by Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, and Fiona Wright.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025. |
| Description | 478 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Candea, Matei, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMcjPptKyCqWXvxBW48qP |
| Other author/creator | Fedirko, Taras, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Heywood, Paolo, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjKkJ66FbMHCGXKGpT9X7d |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Fiona, 1985- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqt6VxF7v9DVctKVxqB4C |
| Series | Studies in the anthropology of language, sign, and social life |
| Abstract | "Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. From Ireland to India, from Palestine to West Papua, from contemporary Java to early twentieth-century Britain, and from colonial Vietnam to the contemporary United States, the book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular “Western liberal tradition” of freedom of speech, exploring its internal complexities and highlighting alternative perspectives on the relationship between speech, freedom, and constraint in other times and places. Chapters analyse subjects commonly linked to freedom-of-speech debates, shedding new light on familiar topics that include campus speech codes, defamation, and press freedom, while also exploring unexpected ones such as therapy, gift-giving, and martyrdom. These analyses not only provide unexpected perspectives and unique insights but also address a myriad of questions, contributing to a rich, interdisciplinary, and human understanding of the nature of freedom of speech."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Freedoms of speech. Toronto ; Buffalo : London : University of Toronto Press, 2025 1487550227 9781487550226 |
| ISBN | 9781487548841 |
| ISBN | 1487548842 |
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