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1 online resource (ix, 384 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Freedom of public expression is becoming ever more contested in Canada. The idea that official messages, meanings, and histories can take the place of publicly constructed ones - for fear of what an uncensored public might themselves construct - is gaining widespread acceptance. Public invocation of hate propaganda law, its language, and its moral authority in otherwise ordinary discursive contexts, has contributed to, and is symbolic of, this trend." "Democracy Off Balance offers an analysis of hate censorship as a paradox of modern democratic discourse. In this controversial work, Stefan Braun argues against the supposed public interest served by hate speech laws and dissects the complex forces - the politically self-contradictory thinking and the socially self-defeating assumptions - that drive censorship in Canada today." "Braun draws on censors' own terms of social and political reference to show how they undermine their own causes with hate censorship. He demonstrates how hate speech law reaches beyond its strictly legal confines and essentially conditions and corrodes public discourse. Timely and absorbing, Democracy Off Balance offers a multidimensional approach to the debate and challenges traditional views on the legal boundaries of freedom of expression."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One: Foundations of the Imbalance""; ""I: The Malady and the Prevention: A Brief Historical Perspective""; ""II: The Political and Intellectual Slide: From Open Bigotry to Subconscious Prejudice to Structural Discrimination � from National Survival to Social Transformation""; ""III: The Juridical Slide: From a Right of Expression to a Question of Content � the Evolution of Asymmetry in Judicial Balancing""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Two: Functions and Assumptions of Freedom of Expression"" |
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""I: Participation, Self-determination, and Self-government""""II: Enlightened Publics, Honest Politics, Accountable Politicians, and Self-government""; ""1 Enlightened Participation and Social Division""; ""2 Meaningful Public Discourse, Social Truth, and Social Division""; ""3 Multiplicity of Public Truth and Social Division""; ""4 Honest Politicians, Accountable Politics, Public Division""; ""III: Adaptation, Change, and Enduring Self-government""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Three: Functions and Assumptions of Hate Propaganda Law"" |
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""I: Peace and Order: Victim Retaliation and Disturbance to Public Order""""II: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Hate-Induced Self-exclusion, Self-withdrawal, Negative Participation, and Assimilation""; ""III: Community Participation and Multiculturalism: Societal Exclusion � Visible and Invisible""; ""1 Visible Exclusion""; ""2 Invisible Exclusion""; ""IV: Social Disintegration and Political Conflagration: The 'Mushroom' Thesis""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Four: The Political Dilemma, Part I: Legally Definable and Politically Defensible Hate Censorship"" |
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""I: Unwrapping the Politics of Content: What Is Hate Propaganda and How Do You Fix It?""""II: Unwrapping the Politics of Victimhood: Absolute Victims and Absolute Victimizers""; ""III: Unwrapping the Politics of Fixing Social Right: Trusted Censorship and Trustworthy Censors""; ""1 Competence""; ""2 Chilling Effects""; ""3 Accountability""; ""4 Conflict of Interest""; ""5 Fixability""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Five: The Political Dilemma, Part II: The 'Slippery Slope'""; ""I: The Drive to Slide""; ""1 Rival Groups and the Conduct of Silencing""; ""2 Censors and Self-justification"" |
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""3 The Public, the Politician, and the Paradox""""4 The Public, the Politician, and the Hatemonger""; ""II: Changing Course: The Political Dynamics of Self-correction and the Legacies of Censorship's Slide""; ""1 The Political Dynamics of Self-correction""; ""2 Political Backlash and Its Legacies""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Six: The Pragmatic Dilemma: Hate Censorship That 'Works'""; ""I: How Prosecution Misappropriates Discursive Public Conflict and Misshapes Public Perceptions to the Detriment of the Cause of Repression"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Freedom of speech -- Canada.
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Freedom of speech. |
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Canada. |
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Hate speech -- Canada.
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Hate speech. |
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Electronic books.
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Hate speech. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Braun, Stefan, 1954- Democracy off balance. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2004 9780802089595 (OCoLC)53396807 |
| ISBN |
9781442673809 (electronic book) |
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144267380X (electronic book) |
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1281992631 |
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9781281992635 |
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0802089593 (bound) |
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0802086365 (paperback) |
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9780802089595 |
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9780802086365 |
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