[Commlist] New book: Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

*Unsettled Voices *


  Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

Edited By


    Tanja Dreher

,


    Michael R. Griffiths


,


    Timothy Laurie



 From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler 
colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and 
migration debates, ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target 
racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. /Unsettled Voices 
/identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free 
speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics, and explores 
the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin 
emboldened white supremacy.

What kind of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an 
interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social 
expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an inflation 
of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore, how do such forms 
refuse the idea that language can be a performative act from which harm 
can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and shaped the 
subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants, reproducing new 
and problematic forms of precarity. These vulnerabilities have been 
experienced from the sound of rubber bullets in the Occupied Palestinian 
Territories to UK hate speech legislation, to the spontaneous performace 
of a First Nations war dance on the Australian Rules football pitch.

This book identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences 
of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ 
typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the possibilities 
to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target 
racialized communities.

This book was originally published as a special issue of /Continuum: 
Journal of Media & Cultural Studies./


    Table of Contents


Introduction: Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

/

Tanja Dreher, Michael Griffiths and Timothy Laurie

/

1. Beyond denial: ‘not racism’ as racist violence

/

Alana Lentin

/

2. 'You cunts can do as you like': the obscenity and absurdity of free 
speech to Blackfullas

/

Chelsea Bond, Bryan Mukandi and Shane Coghill

/

3. Off script and indefensible: the failure of the 'moderate Muslim'

/

Randa Abdel-Fattah and Mehal Krayem

/

4. Inquiry mentality and occasional mourning in the settler colonial 
carceral

/

Micaela Sahhar and Michael R. Griffiths

/

5. What does racial (in)justice sound like? On listening, acoustic 
violence and the booing of Adam Goodes

/

Poppy de Souza

/

6. The ‘free speech’ of the (un)free

/

Yassir Morsi

/

7. Silence and resistance: Aboriginal women working within and against 
the archive

/

Evelyn Araluen Corr

/

8. The shape of free speech: rethinking liberal free speech theory

/

Anshuman A. Mondal

/

9. In a different voice: 'a letter from Manus Island' as poetic manifesto

/

Anne Surma

/

10. Manus prison poetics/our voice: revisiting 'A Letter From Manus 
Island', a reply to Anne Surma

/

Behrouz Boochani

/

11. Behrouz Boochani and the Manus Prison narratives: merging 
translation with philosophical reading

/

Omid Tofighian

/

Afterword: Reconstructing voices and situated listening

/

Timothy Laurie, Tanja Dreher, Michael Griffiths and Omid Tofighian

/


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