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Freedom Of Speech And Censorship, Kirstie Lang
Freedom Of Speech And Censorship, Kirstie Lang
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Censorship is commonly posited in opposition to free speech. However, censorship can also be understood as a kind of freedom, one which enables us to participate in collective decisions to control speech. Social and political theorist Isaiah Berlin has written of these two kinds of liberties as integral to Iiberal, democratic traditions which, problematic though they sometimes are, continue to inform the foundations of policymaking in Western, post-industrial democracies (Berlin, 1969; Dworkin, 1991). In this paper I describe these two forms of liberty as interconnected by democratic theory, but as simultaneously contradictory given the values that support them. Doing so …
Feminism And Feminisms: The Prospect Of Censorship, Gudrun Helgadottir
Feminism And Feminisms: The Prospect Of Censorship, Gudrun Helgadottir
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Given the diversity and division of women according to class, face, ethnicity, religion, age and other social factors, we must expect and accept conflict and contradiction within feminism. I refer here broadly to feminism as a school of thought and as a political movement aiming to improve the lot of women (Black, 1989). Current theorizing about the social construct, gender, is inspired by the contradictions inherent in feminism (Scott, 1983). They fuel a constructive dialogue but they aIso contain the threat of censorship. There is the tendency to disregard the right to dissenting voices within feminism, to suppress internal questioning …
Censored By Omission: Imagery That Is Excluded From The Art Education Classroom, Pamela Tarlow-Calder
Censored By Omission: Imagery That Is Excluded From The Art Education Classroom, Pamela Tarlow-Calder
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
There exists a wealth of imagery that is censored by means of exclusion from general art curricula. This imagery is often highly relevant to students and should therefore be addressed and examined critically in art education at all levels. In what follows, the practice of censorship by exclusion in relation to imagery available for classroom critique will be discussed; a critical-reflective approach to art criticism inquiry In light of prevalent social and interpersonal concerns will be advocate, and an example from classroom practice will be investigated.