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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Slater, Tom, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Political activity.

College students.

Freedom of speech.

Student movements.

Education, Higher.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

vii, 134 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137587849

9781137587848

9781137587855

1137587857

OCLC:

934194876