[Linganth] Freedoms of Speech on the CaMP blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona
Wright discuss their new edited book: *Freedoms of Speech: **Anthropological
Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power*.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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.
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