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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.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Michelle Deutchman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Spoma Jovanovic
Ch 1 Free Speech as a Tool of Self-Government: A Short History
Lewis Pitts
Part 1: Community Voices for Justice
Ch 2Crossroads of Justice: Conversations and Public Spaces
Spoma Jovanovic
Ch 3 The Struggle for Space: Racialized Mass Homelessness, The Privatization of
Public Space, and Fundamental Rights
Marcus Hyde and Gary Kenton
Ch 4 Greensboro, 1963: Free Speech and the Boundaries of Nonviolence
Thomas F. Jackson
Ch 5 Black Women Speaking for Justice
Sarah E. Hollingsworth
Ch 6 Money, Speech, and Power: Participatory Budgeting as Free Expression
Vincent Russell and Therese Gardner
Part 2: Urban Spaces and Contested Speech
Ch 7 Legislating Memory: Accommodating Contestations of Public Monuments
Laura Ricciardi
Ch 8 Art, Censorship, and the Battles over Public Spaces
John K. Wilson
Ch 9Balancing the Goods of Speech in a Postmodern Historical Moment
David Errera
Ch 10Video Games and Free Speech: Reproducing Inequalities and Pushing Justice at the
Margins
Yacine Kout and Marina Lambrinou
Part 3: Free Speech in Higher Education
Ch 11The Tension Between Free Speech and Diversity on Campus
Michael C. Behrent
Ch 12 Free Speech, Hate Speech, Snowflakes, and Student Activism: InstitutionalAccountability
Cerri A. Banks and Lorri M. Riggs
Ch 13A Safe Space for the White Race: An Interrogation of White Nationalist Propaganda on College Campuses
Gabriel A. Cruz and Patrick Sawyer
About the Contributors
About the author
Spoma Jovanovic is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Summary
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.
