Introduction: Freedom of Expression in Turbulent Times

John Steel and Julian Petley

Part One: Concepts and Histories

Chapter 1: Freedom of Expression as a Pre-Enlightenment Concept

Jordi Pujol

Chapter 2: Freedom of Expression, the Enlightenment and the Liberal Tradition

Geoff Kemp

Chapter 3: Histories of In/tolerance

Russell Blackford

Chapter 4: Literary influence and legal precedent: Censorship in the Court of the Chancery, 1710-1823

Paul Whickman

Chapter 5: The Quest for Truth and Knowledge

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij

Chapter 6: Autonomy and Freedom of Expression

Eric Barendt

Chapter 7: Bentham and Security against misrule

Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman

Chapter 8: Freedom of Expression in the 20th Century

Sue Curry-Jansen,

Chapter 9: Philosophies of Censorship and Control

Eric Barendt

Part Two: Global Perspectives

Chapter 10: Freedom of Expression in Latin America in Times of Populism: Between Western Normative Expectations and the Complexities on the Ground

Ezequiel Korin and Jairo Lugo-Ocando

Chapter 11: Protecting the pandemic press: Exploring press freedom in Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic

Bruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare Orgeret

Chapter 12: Media Freedom in the Arab Region

Noha Mellor

Chapter 13: Censorship and Freedom of Expression in China

Chris Fei Shen and Weiying Shi

Chapter 14: Oscillating between ‘speech freedom’ and ‘national interests’ - the contested boundaries of online Freedom of Expression in China

Yuan Zeng, and Tongzhou Ran

Chapter 15: Freedom of Expression and Democracy in Japan in the 2010s

Ryusaku Yamada

Chapter 16: Freedom of Expression and the legacy of colonialism: a view from France

Imen Neffati

Chapter 17: Faith and Toleration in Neoliberal Times: Australia as a Case Study

Adam Possamai

Part Three: Key Controversies

Chapter 18: The Harm in Hate Speech and in Holocaust Denial

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Chapter 19: Feminism and pornography

Fionna Attwood and Julian Petley

Chapter 20: Political Correctness: The Right’s Favourite Bugaboo

Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale

Chapter 21: Free Speech, Cancel Culture and the ‘war on woke’

John Steel

Chapter 22: Academic Freedom and Constrained Expression

Thomas Docherty

Chapter 23: Breaking News ? Media Freedom in Crisis

Simon Dawes

Chapter 24: P2P speech regulation ? Gossip, Reputation, and Norm Policing on Social Media

Julie Seaman

Chapter 25: Vitriol and voice: Battlegrounds to control employee expression on social media in work

Claire Taylor

Chapter 26: Emma Briant, “Hack Attacks: How Cyber Intimidation and Conspiracy Theories Drive the Spiral of ‘Secrecy Hacking’”

Chapter 27: Violence, impunity and their impact on press freedom

Lada Trifonova Price

Part Four: Institutions, Technologies and Frameworks

Chapter 28: The Regulation of the Online World

Julian Petley

Chapter 29: Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: interrogating the focus at Strasbourg on political expression under Article 10 ECHR

Helen Fenwick

Chapter 30: The ECHR Perspective on Whistleblowing as Speech: A case study of ‘national security’ whistleblowing

Dimitrios Kagiaros

Chapter 31: National Security and the Extension of State Power

Paul Lashmar

Chapter 32: Marketing Communications and Media: Commercial Speech, Censorship and Control

Jonathan Hardy

Chapter 33: Regulating the Press in the UK

Tom O’Malley

Chapter 34: Freedom of the Press in Britain: From Radical to Reactionary... to Reinvigoration?

Aaron Ackerley

Chapter 35: “Should I stay (on Twitter) or should I go?” Three causes of journalistic self-censorship on Twitter

Chrysi Dagoula

Chapter 36: All the news that’s fit to report? News values and the ‘free press’

Tony Harcup

Index