Petitions to reject controversial speakers from college campuses would have little effect unless administrators were willing to formally disinvite speakers. So, why are administrators responsive to some movements to exclude certain perspectives from campus and not others? This paper attempts to answer this question through an empirical study of 349 speaker disinvitation attempts on 218 U.S. colleges and universities from 2000 to 2017. I use an original data set with information sourced from the Foundation for Individual Rights and U.S. News and World Report to determine what factors predict a successful formally rescinded invitation. My findings suggest that the forum of the speech, the petitioner type, and speaker type may predict the success of an attempt to disinvite a speaker from college campuses. My empirical results showed that conservative protests are better predictors of success than liberal protests. This paper addresses class bias and complacency with the academic culture in religious institutions as the main influencers causing pundits to ignore free speech politics at less selective, non-secular American colleges and universities.

Orientador: Claudia Regina Castellanos Pfeiffer / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T20:56:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Godoi_Gileade_D.pdf: 1383807 bytes, checksum: 1506c3bcdfefec6c3d9f8d7c28c7f2b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Os documentos da inquisição são ricas fontes para compreendermos e analisarmos a sociedade em uma época dada. No Brasil, as Visitações do Santo Ofício ao longo dos séculos produziram um farto material que nos ajudam a compreender a constituição dos processos de identificação de um sujeito brasileiro, especialmente no que tange à religiosidade. A partir do lugar teórico da Análise de Discurso de linha francesa (Pêcheux), analisamos a última visitação do Santo Ofício ao Brasil, ocorrida aos Estados do Grão-Pará e Maranhão. A partir dos conceitos de lugar e posição, memória, redes de memória e transferência foi possível compreendermos os percursos de sentidos, silenciamentos e resistências que culminaram em uma religiosidade sincrética, identificadora de nossa sociedade. Práticas de curas, rezas para conquistas amorosas, adivinhações e histórias com acontecimentos fantásticos trilharam caminhos que foram da naturalização à demonização e desta ao reconhecimento de suas virtudes através de processos de ressalva, trabalhada aqui como lugar de argumentação e de transferência de memória, lugar de resistência e sobrevivência que possibilitou a manutenção da ritualística pagã através de sua inscrição em ritos católicos e da inscrição do discurso católico na ritualística pagã. Pontos de fuga para a pecha de herege; pontos de reinscrição no lugar considerado pela Igreja como cristão. E a sociedade brasileira se forma e se constitui na resistência e na transformação de memórias intercontinentais / Abstract: The documents of the Inquisition are rich sources for understanding and analyzing societies in a specific time. In Brazil, visitations of the Santo Ofício over the centuries have produced a wealth of material that helps us understand the formation of the Brazilian national identification process, especially in regard to religion. From the theoretical point of the French Discourse Analysis (Pecheux), we analyzed the last visitation of the Santo Ofício in Brazil to the states of Grão Pará and Maranhão. Considering the concepts of place and position, memory, memory network and transfer, it was possible to understand the pathways of the senses, silencing and resistance that culminated in the syncretic religion that identifies our society. Healing practices, prayers for love affair purposes, fortune-telling and stories with fantastic events that range from naturalization to demonization and to the recognition of its virtues through the process of qualification, which is seen in this study as a place of reasoning and memory transfer, a place of resistance and survival that allowed the maintenance of pagan rituals through their involvement in Christian rites and the inclusion of Christian discourse in pagan rituals. Points of scape from the heretic failure; re-submission to Christian/Roman Catholic condition. And the Brazilian society is formed in the resistance and transformation of intercontinental memories / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística

The thesis solves the modern state of media power across selected political systems. The main idea is how the control of media content and the authorities of regulators are established inside the legal conception. Also, the question is, whether such a system of regulation is currently sufficient and whether the situation has come into a state where the media ceased to function as a control element of democracy and took on a determinant and powerful role. The first part of the thesis is a theoretical one, in which the basic concepts and also the most important sources on which the research is based on are presented. The second part is a practical one and it presents the systems themselves including their main characteristics. The mechanism of control in each country is described in more detail, and the hypothesis is presented together with the procedure leading to its evaluation. The hypothesis is confirmed in the last part of the thesis and the results are compared using information from the analysis. The paper presents a discussion of the detected state of media power at the end and also offers possible ways and solutions.

University press publishing, while often associated with the promotion of academic freedom, may be situated between the poles of resistance and complicity when considering intellectual responses to apartheid. Yet the history of this form of scholarly publishing has largely been ignored thus far, due to a perception that it had little to tell us about either apartheid or the struggle against it. However, the social history of South Africa’s university presses – at Wits, Natal and Unisa, in particular – provides a new angle for examining academic freedom and knowledge production during the apartheid era. Using a hybrid methodology including archival research, historical bibliography, and political sociology, this study aims to examine the origins, publishing lists and philosophies of the university presses through the lens of a continuum of intellectual responses: ranging from collaboration and complicity, to opposition and dissidence. Results show that, over time, the positions and publishing strategies adopted by the South African university presses shifted, becoming more liberal. It is argued, however, that the university presses should not be considered oppositional or anti-apartheid publishers, in part because they did not resist the censorship regime of the government, and in part because they operated within the constraints of publicly funded, bureaucratic institutions of higher education. They nonetheless produced an important, if under-valued, body of work and provided a platform for a variety of academic opinions. Moreover, the university presses faced a variety of challenges in their struggle to survive over the years, including financial pressures, international competition, and wavering institutional support. But perhaps the greatest challenge was a delicate balancing act: an attempt to promote academic freedom within a climate of political repression, censorship and ideology. The study demonstrates the significance of publishing history for an examination of broader issues of social history, as well as the applicability of a wide range of methodological tools for the field of Book History. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Information Science / unrestricted

This thesis describes critically two famous controversial novels, one by an English author, the other by an American, in such a manner that an emotionally and intellectually secure teacher will be able to draw from these findings in order to teach either of these literary works confidently.

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The twenty-one years of military dictatorship in Brazil were marked by severe repression as government censors controlled every aspect of the media and artistic production. During these tense years from 1964 to 1985, many journalists, academics, writers, and artists struggled to voice their opposition to oppressive military control. In this same period, many playwrights turned to protest theater as a way to speak out against the dictatorship's abuses. Unsurprisingly, some of the plays produced at this time were heavily censored or shut down. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a young Brazilianist scholar, Ross "Rusty" Butler, befriended, interviewed, and conducted field research on the phenomena of protest theater while living in Brazil. When Butler was preparing to return to the United States after several unsettling events, a few of his new friends asked him to take their works--including some plays that were unpublished and in manuscript form--out of the country in order to avoid censorship. Now, fifty years later, those plays and manuscripts, along with Butler's other research materials, are finally coming to light in the Rusty Butler Archive. The Rusty Butler Archive demonstrates the complex relationship between the military dictatorship, censorship, and cultural production during the 1960s and 70s.

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While writers of the Victorian era were free to address contemporary social issues, playwrights were forced to contend with government censorship that ostensibly discouraged them from debating politically controversial topics. An adjunct of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, the Examiner of Plays was responsible for censoring morally and politically sensitive material, giving this individual tremendous influence over the English stage. My dissertation, Dramatic Anxieties: William Bodham Donne, Censorship and the Victorian Theatre, 1849-18 74, focuses on the career of one dramatic censor, William Bodham Donne (1807-82). Throughout his tenure as Examiner (1849-74), Donne controlled the written content of every play performed in every theatre in England. His was a position of remarkable cultural and social influence, offering him the opportunity to shape the performed drama, and thereby the attitudes of those who attended it. This study examines Donne's censorship of dramatists' attempts to treat in a serious manner such political and social issues as Anglo-Jewish emancipation, Chartism, the repeal of the Com Laws, prison reform, and the condition of the working classes. I demonstrate that to evaluate the cultural impact of dramatic censorship in the Victorian period requires an understanding of the ongoing tension between Donne and the playwrights who, despite the professional ignominy that accompanied censorship, often struggled to address the political and social issues of their time. The relationship between Victorian playwrights and the Examiner involves a cultural dialectic that negotiates the boundaries of a licensed public space. In exposing the explicit and implicit pressures which one such Examiner brought to bear on dramatists, this study begins to uncover what is still a largely unexplored feature of Victorian theatre history. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)