Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Taras Fedirko is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor of social anthropology at Durham University.Fiona Wright is a research fellow at the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

“Freedom of speech, recently a major object of debate, has been discussed mostly in its negative forms of silencing within Western societies. Bringing together an exceptional company of anthropologists, Freedoms of Speech explores it, in contrast, through the multiplicity of its expressions across times and cultures, thus offering a ground-breaking reflection on language, ethics, and politics."

• Introduction: Anthropologies of Free SpeechPart I: Traditions and Comparisons1. Comparing Freedoms: "Liberal Freedom of Speech" in Frontal and Lateral Perspective2. When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle3. Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam4. Risking Speech in Islam5. Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump6. Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave7. The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of "Free Speech" in Putin-Era RussiaPart II: Extending the Politics of Free Speech8. Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary9. Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority When Egalitarians Embrace the State10. Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique11. The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit12. Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of MovementPart III: Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling 13. Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism 14. Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society15. As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising16. Age of Saturn: Art, Parafiction, Censorship, and the Contested History of BangladeshPart IV: Therapies, Individual and Collective 17. Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception18. An American Canard: Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and the Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech19. Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK20. Secret Censors: Scandals of Sexuality in Global/Indian PublicsBibliographyIndex

Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Taras Fedirko is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor of social anthropology at Durham University.Fiona Wright is a research fellow at the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

“Freedom of speech, recently a major object of debate, has been discussed mostly in its negative forms of silencing within Western societies. Bringing together an exceptional company of anthropologists, Freedoms of Speech explores it, in contrast, through the multiplicity of its expressions across times and cultures, thus offering a ground-breaking reflection on language, ethics, and politics."

• Introduction: Anthropologies of Free SpeechPart I: Traditions and Comparisons1. Comparing Freedoms: "Liberal Freedom of Speech" in Frontal and Lateral Perspective2. When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle3. Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam4. Risking Speech in Islam5. Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump6. Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave7. The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of "Free Speech" in Putin-Era RussiaPart II: Extending the Politics of Free Speech8. Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary9. Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority When Egalitarians Embrace the State10. Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique11. The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit12. Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of MovementPart III: Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling 13. Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism 14. Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society15. As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising16. Age of Saturn: Art, Parafiction, Censorship, and the Contested History of BangladeshPart IV: Therapies, Individual and Collective 17. Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception18. An American Canard: Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and the Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech19. Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK20. Secret Censors: Scandals of Sexuality in Global/Indian PublicsBibliographyIndex

Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Taras Fedirko is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor of social anthropology at Durham University.Fiona Wright is a research fellow at the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

“Freedom of speech, recently a major object of debate, has been discussed mostly in its negative forms of silencing within Western societies. Bringing together an exceptional company of anthropologists, Freedoms of Speech explores it, in contrast, through the multiplicity of its expressions across times and cultures, thus offering a ground-breaking reflection on language, ethics, and politics."

• Introduction: Anthropologies of Free SpeechPart I: Traditions and Comparisons1. Comparing Freedoms: "Liberal Freedom of Speech" in Frontal and Lateral Perspective2. When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle3. Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam4. Risking Speech in Islam5. Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump6. Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave7. The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of "Free Speech" in Putin-Era RussiaPart II: Extending the Politics of Free Speech8. Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary9. Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority When Egalitarians Embrace the State10. Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique11. The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit12. Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of MovementPart III: Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling 13. Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism 14. Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society15. As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising16. Age of Saturn: Art, Parafiction, Censorship, and the Contested History of BangladeshPart IV: Therapies, Individual and Collective 17. Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception18. An American Canard: Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and the Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech19. Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK20. Secret Censors: Scandals of Sexuality in Global/Indian PublicsBibliographyIndex