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Unsafe space : the crisis of free speech on campus / edited by Tom Slater

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London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Physical Description
vii, 134 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Slater, Tom

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment / Brendan O'Neill -- 2.The `New' Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech / Nancy McDermott -- 3.Re-Educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats / Tom Slater -- 4.Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech / Joanna Williams -- 5.Trigger Warnings: A Gun to the Head of Academia / Greg Lukianoff -- 6.BDS: Demonising Israel, Destroying Free Speech / Sean Collins -- 7.Debating Abortion on Campus: Let Both the Pro and Anti Sides Speak / Jon O'Brien -- 8.A Climate of Censorship: Eco-Orthodoxy on Campus / Peter Wood -- 9.Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students / Tom Slater -- 10.Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within / Frank Furedi.
Summary
The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, theyve been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, academics and agitators from the US and UK, Unsafe Space is a wake-up call. From the war on lad culture to the clampdown on climate skeptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free speech on campus. But society also needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Our inability to stick up for our founding, liberal values, to insist that the free exchange of ideas should always be a risky business, has eroded free speech from within.
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1137587849
9781137587848
9781137587855 (pbk.)
1137587857 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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