Unsafe space : the crisis of free speech on campus / edited by Tom Slater.
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 w...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reinvigorating the spirit of '64; Tom Slater
- Chapter 1. From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment; Brendan O'Neill
- Chapter 2. The 'New' Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech ; Nancy McDermott
- Chapter 3. Re-educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats; Tom Slater
- Chapter 4. Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech; Joanna Williams
- Chapter 5. Trigger Warnings: A Gun to the Head of Academia ; Greg Lukianoff
- Chapter 6. BDS: Demonising Israel, Destroying Free Speech; Sean Collins
- Chapter 7. Debating Abortion on Campus: Let Both Pro and Antis Speak ; Jon O'Brien
- Chapter 8. A Climate of Censorship: Eco-orthodoxy on Campus; Peter Wood
- Chapter 9. Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students; Tom Slater
- Chapter 10. Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within; Frank Furedi.-Conclusion: How to Make your University an Unsafe Space; Tom Slater.