Ethical Issues: Censorship

From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes read...

George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western socie...

Free Speech on Americas K12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issue...

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examina...

Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earlies...

Journalist Allum Bokhari has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. He has ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video indu...

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technol...

Traditionally, the university or college is thought to be the ultimate location for the discovery and sharing of knowledge. After all, on these cam...

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have be...

A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the YearTimely and authoritativeI enjoyed it immensely.Phili...

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanct...

In this winter issue we look at taboos all over the world from Bangladesh to Britain. Writers include comedians David Baddiell and Shazia Mirza, Al...

Should sport be above politics and human rights? As London gets ready for the Olympics, Index on Censorship visits the ethical pit stops, asks whet...

Index on Censorship hits 40 with a special anniversary issue featuring its finest contributors. From celebrated Russian author Mikhail Bulgakovs di...

The book presents an important and well known but so far not described episode in the history of banned books in the communist Poland the activity...

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, inc...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

The People''s Republic of China (PRC) has the world''s largest number of Internet users, estimated at 500 million people. Despite government effort...