Unsafe space : the crisis of free speech on campus /
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| Imprint: | London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] |
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| Description: | vii, 134 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10807544 |
| 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, 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 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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| Physical Description: | vii, 134 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1137587849 9781137587848 9781137587855 1137587857 |
