Matter of Obscenity, A: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England By Christopher Hilliard
2021 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0691197989 | EPUB | 3 MB
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.

Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship By Anna Grøndahl Larsen (editor), Ingrid Fadnes (editor), Roy Krøvel (editor)
2020 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 036740964X | PDF | 17 MB
This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship provides new and updated insights into patterns of self-censorship and free speech, focusing on a variety of factors that affect these issues, including surveillance, legislation, threats, violent conflict, gender-related stereotypes, digitisation and social media. The contributions examine topics such as trauma, risk and self-censorship among journalists in different regions of the world, including Central America, Estonia, Turkey, Uganda and Pakistan. The book also provides conceptual clarity to the notion of journalist self-censorship, and explores the question of how self-censorship may be studied empirically. Combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, this collection serves as a much-needed resource for any academic, student of journalism, practicing journalist, or NGO working on issues of journalism, safety, free speech and censorship.

Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary"
English | ISBN: 1032384999 | 2023 | 184 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India. It examines the rationales and observations produced by the judiciary when demands for censorship are directed against publications that allegedly offend religious sentiments. Focusing on a micro-level analysis of censorship of publications, it presents a hard case to understand the limitations of freedom of expression and the role played by the judiciary in defining its boundaries. The volume traces the evolution of laws governing freedom of expression since the colonial period and the context in which these laws were amended after Independence. It also explicates how the legal process - the structural and functional aspects of working of judiciary - affects the fate of freedom of expression in India. Employing comparative legal analysis, it tries to understand and situate the Indian case within the larger discourse of censorship and freedom of expression around the world, thereby marking its similarities and differences. In unravelling the politics of censorship, the author also examines the interaction among different stakeholders like government, non-state actors and the judiciary.

Cinema and Censorship: The Politics of Control in India By BHOWMIK SOMESWAR
2009 | 381 Pages | ISBN: 8125036652 | PDF | 102 MB
Study of film censorship, colonial and contemporary India. a classic. basic.

Bisrat Woldemichael Handiso, "Genocide of thought: Censorship in Ethiopia"
English | 2017 | pages: 72 | ISBN: 9082364131 | EPUB | 1,4 mb

Bui Thanh Hieu, P.H. Thompson, "Speaking in Silence: Censorship in Vietnam"
English | 2015 | ASIN: B013UWYCWG | EPUB | pages: 69 | 1.5 mb

A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals (Children's Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy
English | August 2nd, 2022 | ISBN: 1510775587 | 120 pages | True EPUB | 5.43 MB
A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science

Alireza Abiz, "Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979"
English | ISBN: 1784538078 | 2020 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1272 KB
Censorship pervades all aspects of political, social and cultural life in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Faced with strict state control of cultural output, Iranian authors and writers have had to adapt their work to avoid falling foul of the censors. In this pioneering study, Alireza Abiz offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of how censorship and the political order of Iran have influenced contemporary Persian literature, both in terms of content and tone. As censorship is unrecorded and not officially acknowledged in Iran, the author has examined newspaper records and conducted first-hand interviews with Iranian poets and writers. looking into the ways in which poets and writers attempt to subvert the codes of censorship by using symbolism and figurative language to hide their more controversial messages. A ground-breaking analysis, this book will be vital reading for anyone interested in contemporary cultural politics and literature in Iran.

The Infodemic How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free by Joel Simon | 1.76 MB
English | 202 Pages

Title: The Infodemic
Author: Joel Simon
Year: 2022

Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India by Sarah Fatima Waheed
English | Jan 20, 2022 | ISBN: 1108834523 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Sarah Waheed offers a timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. She delves into how these left-leaning intellectuals drew from long-standing literary traditions of Islam in a period of great duress and upheaval, complicating our understanding of the relationship between religion and secularism. Rather than seeing 'religion' and 'the secular' as distinct and oppositional phenomena, this book demonstrates how these concepts themselves were historically produced in South Asia and were deeply interconnected in the cultural politics of the left. Through a detailed analysis of trials for blasphemy, obscenity, and sedition, and feminist writers, Waheed argues that Muslim intellectuals engaged with socialism and communism through their distinctive ethical and cultural past. In so doing, she provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Pakistan and South Asian modernity.