Ethical Issues & Debates

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the pub...

How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors fos...

The referendum to overturn Irelands near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times. The camp...

This book explores the increasing altruistic impulse of the design community to address some of the worlds most difficult problems including social...

In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-aboliti...

In 2004, Michael Burawoy challenged sociologists to move beyond the ivory tower and into the realm of activism to engage in public discourses abou...

This volume’s relevance may be explained, first and foremost, during a time of unprecedented loss of life around the world each day. The data, whic...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. We tend to hold people responsible for their choices, but not for what they cant con...

This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack. It follows the method of hacking by developing an exploit kit on the basis of stat...

The discourse surrounding prostitution is increasingly one of sexual commerce, transaction and commercial exchange. The sex economy and the consume...

The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state con...

In The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities​, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bests...

In this edited collection, contributors analyze how the media is navigating Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, and its mediated democracy. Des...

Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing...

Is parents’ power over their children legitimate? And what role does theoretical analysis play when we make such normative evaluations? While this ...

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanical...

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