Stirring Up Hatred: Myth, Identity and Order in the Regulation of Hate Speech - Couverture souple

Neller, Jen

 
9783031192449: Stirring Up Hatred: Myth, Identity and Order in the Regulation of Hate Speech
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3031192443 ISBN 13 : 9783031192449
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book critically examines the development of the ‘stirring up hatred’ offences which are currently found within the UK’s Public Order Act 1986. Through a critical discourse analysis of key excerpts of parliamentary Hansard, the book constructs a detailed genealogy of the offences from the perspectives that shaped them. A novel application of theory on 'myth' is used to navigate the complex arguments and to trace ideas about identity and order across parliamentary debates, from fears of Fascism in the 1930s to condemnations of homophobia in the early 21st century. The story of the stirring up hatred offences told in this book therefore extends far beyond the traditional frame of a dilemma between regulating hate speech and safeguarding free speech: it is inextricably entwined with myths about law, race and national identity, and speaks to wider themes of coloniality, neoliberalism, white entitlement, British-Christian exceptionalism and the innocence of law. Writtenin an accessible and engaging style, this book challenges a wide range of assumptions about hate speech law and raises a series of considerations for developing forms of accountability that are less complicit in the harms that they are supposed to redress.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jen Neller is Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she teaches Public Law and research methods. She is a co-author of the last two editions of Pearson's Law of the European Union textbook and has published in Critical Discourse Studies and the International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Jen obtained a PhD in law from Birkbeck University of London in 2020.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3031192443
ISBN 13 
9783031192449
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
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