Format:
1 online resource (291 pages)
ISBN:
9781793630940
Content:
Expression in Contested Public Spaces affirms the principles of free speech and civic engagement by highlighting the myriad ways people express their voices in public spaces to uphold the core tenets of democracy. The scholarly contributions address current day and enduring concerns about, debates on, and the promises for free expression.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1: Free Speech as a Tool of Self-Government: A Short History -- Contested Spaces and the Struggle for Justice: Some History -- References -- Part I: Community Voices for Justice -- Chapter 2: Crossroads of Justice: Conversations and Public Spaces -- The Struggles We Inherit -- Democracy, Ethics, and Justice -- Greensboro: Voices for Social Justice and Change -- Speakers' Corners: Conversations and Disruptions -- Yellow Vests: Organizing, Activism, and Democracy -- The Way Forward -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Struggle for Space: Racialized Mass Homelessness, the Privatization of Public Space, and Fundamental Rights -- Historical Exclusion Laws, State Action, and Racial Identity -- The Emergence of Modern Racialized Mass Homelessness -- Business Improvement Districts and Making Public Spaces, Private -- Conclusion: Asserting Our Rights Requires a Measure of Resistance -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Greensboro, 1963: Free Speech and the Boundaries of Nonviolence -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Black Women Speaking for Justice -- Black Women's Speech and Intersectionality -- Black Women Survival -- A Black Feminist Perspective -- The Stories: Countering Controlling Images through Free Speech -- Black Women: Empowering Words for Freedom and Justice -- References -- Chapter 6: Money, Speech, and Power: Participatory Budgeting as Free Expression -- Expression as a Negative and Positive Liberty -- Participatory Budgeting -- Participatory Budgeting and Free Expression in Denver -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Urban Spaces and Contested Speech -- Chapter 7: Legislating Memory: The Legal Landscape of Contested Monuments in the United States -- Lee Circle and Black Lives Matter.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781793630933
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Expression in contested public spaces Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2021 ISBN 9781793630933
Language:
English
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