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[ecrea] Nordicom Book Freedom of Speech

Wed Jun 03 21:22:50 GMT 2009



New Book from Nordicom

Freedom of Speech Abridged?
Cultural, Legal and Philosophical Challenges
Edited by Anine Kierulf & Helge Rønning
Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2009, 155 p. Price: ? 25


Freedom of Speech Abridged? contains eleven essays
recognizing free
speech as a fundamental value under fire in a time of globalization. The
contributors are professionals of various fields working in the Nordic
countries,who over the years have been engaged in debates over free
speech issues
from different angles.

The book discusses freedom of expression as a universal human right, and
analyses its philosophical foundations. It raises legal questions
arising from the tension between basic rights, and between national and
international law. It considers to what extent freedom of expression
thrives or withers in an increasingly gobalized world of new technology.
It discusses the Danish cartoons from a principled perspective, and it
draws the lines of today?s controversies back to the twenty-year-old
fatwa against Salman Rushdie. /Freedom of Speech Abridged?/ is written
by scholars and journalists in the Nordic countries, and represents a
principled and spirited defence of freedom of expression.

Anine Kierulf is a PhD research fellow at the Department of Public and
International Law and Helge Rønning is Professor of Media Studies, both
at the University of Oslo, Norway.


For further information see
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=281&me=13


Best regards,

Ulla C.

_________________________________

Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor
Director
NORDICOM
University of Gothenburg
Box 713
SE 405 30 Göteborg

www.nordicom.gu.se

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