The free speech wars

The free speech warsThis book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as well as providing a strong historical and comparative context.

Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu

Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming

Neither a top down history

Jacob Flanders

is concerned with women’s varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day

archaeologists and artists

The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content

including Rina Banerjee

and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst

gender studies and queer theory

explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered

and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language