No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech

ISBN-13: 9781138591684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Evan Smith

Opis

This book is the first to outline the history of the tactic of ‘no platforming’ at British universities since the 1970s, looking at more than four decades of student protest against racist and fascist figures on campus.

Spis treści

1. ‘No Platform’ in Historical and Contemporary Context  2. Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Free Speech before ‘No Platform’  3. The Student Movement and the Prelude to ‘No Platform’  4. The National Union of Students and ‘No Platform’ in the 1970s  5. Expanding ‘No Platform’ in the 1980s  6. Hard Right Politicians and Student Protests at Universities in the 1980s  7. Into the Twenty-first Century  8. Why ‘No Platform’ Matters

O autorze

Evan Smith is a research fellow in history at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in South Australia. He has published widely on the history of political extremism, social movements, national security and borders in Britain, Australia and South Africa. He is the author of British Communism and the Politics of Race (2018) and co-editor (with Jon Piccini and Matthew Worley) of The Far Left in Australia since 1945 (Routledge, 2018).