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Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus
Tom Slater (Ed.)
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Description for Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus
Paperback. Tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, our inability to stick up for our founding, liberal values, so that the free exchange of ideas should be a risky business, has eroded free speech from within. Bringing together journalists, academics and agitators from the US and UK, this is a wake-up call. Editor(s): Slater, Tom. Num Pages: 134 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB; JNF; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
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, they've 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 sceptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free ... Read more
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, they've 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 sceptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587855
SKU
V9781137587855
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99-15
About Tom Slater (Ed.)
Tom Slater is deputy editor at spiked, UK. He coordinates spiked's free-speech campaigns Down With Campus Censorship! and the Free Speech University Rankings, the UK's first university league table for free speech. Tom has written on politics, pop culture and free speech for the Spectator, the Telegraph, Times Higher Education, The Times and the Independent.
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