Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89

Snakes and Ladders

AvLibora Oates-Indruchová

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors foster creativity or did unintentional self-censorship lead to the detriment of thought? Drawing on oral history and primary source material from the Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and state science policy documents, Libora Oates-Indruchová explores to what extent scholarly publishing in state-socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary was affected by censorship and how writers responded to intellectual un-freedom.Divided into four main parts looking at the institutional context of censorship, the full trajectory of a manuscript from idea to publication, the author and their relationship to the text and language, this book provides a fascinating insight into the ambivalent beneficial and detrimental effects of censorship on scholarly work from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89 also brings the historical censorship of state-socialism into the present, reflecting on the cultural significance of scholarly publishing in the light of current debates on the neoliberal academia and the future of the humanities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350253155

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Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz, Austria. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice (2015), along with Hana Havelková.

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[T]he book unquestionably unpacks thoughtfully several aspects of censorship under state socialism to offer a balanced appraisal of how academic authors navigated the era’s constraints, with insights into more recent worlds of academic publishing. It will enrich future work in this area.

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List of IllustrationsList of Figures and BoxesAcknowledgementsNote on the TranslationChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Limits: Regulation of Czechoslovak Scholarly Life in Policy DocumentsPlate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The BeginningsDocument. Dramatis PersonaeChapter 3. People and Institutions: Surviving in Normalized Academia Chapter 4. The Work: ‘Driving’ a Manuscript on the Highways and Byways of State-Socialist Academic PublishingChapter 5. The Author: Censoring and Authoring under State SocialismChapter 6. The Language: Research Topics, Vocabulary, Writing in CodeChapter 7. The Review: Loss of Memory, the Ghosts of Academia Past in the PresentPlate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The EndsChapter 8. Snakes and Ladders: A Theory of State-Socialist CensorshipChapter 9. CodaBibliography Index