Freedoms of Speech

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

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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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Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech

Part I: Traditions and Comparisons

1. Comparing Freedoms: "Liberal Freedom of Speech" in Frontal and Lateral Perspective
2. When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle
3. Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam
4. Risking Speech in Islam
5. Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God's Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump
6. Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini's Grave
7. The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of "Free Speech" in Putin-Era Russia

Part II: Extending the Politics of Free Speech

8. Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary
9. Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority When Egalitarians Embrace the State
10. Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique
11. The People's Radio between Populism and Bullshit
12. Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of Movement

Part III: Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling

13. Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism
14. Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society
15. As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising
16. Age of Saturn: Art, Parafiction, Censorship, and the Contested History of Bangladesh

Part IV: Therapies, Individual and Collective

17. Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception
18. An American Canard: Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and the Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech
19. Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK
20. Secret Censors: Scandals of Sexuality in Global/Indian Publics

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