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Hate Speech Frontiers: Exploring the Limits of the Ordinary and Legal Concepts
No serious attempt to answer the question 'What is hate speech?' would be complete without an exploration of the outer limits of the concept(s). This book critically examines both the ordinary and legal concepts of hate speech, contrasting social media platform content policies with national and international laws. It also explores a range of controversial grey area examples of hate speech. Part I focuses on the ordinary concept and looks at hybrid attacks, selective attacks, reverse attacks, righteous attacks, indirect attacks, identity attacks, existential denials, identity denials, identity miscategorisations, and identity appropriations. Part II concentrates on the legal concept. It considers how to distinguish between hate speech and hate crime, and examines the precarious position of denialism laws in national and international law. Together, the authors draw on conceptual analysis, doctrinal analysis, linguistic analysis, critical analysis, and diachronic analysis to map the new frontiers of the concepts of hate speech.
608 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 9, 2023
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Alexander Brown
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From the listed website: Alexander Brown is Associate Professor (Reader) in Political and Legal Theory.
He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University College London (UCL) (2005). He was a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Political Science at UCL (2005-9) before coming to UEA in September 2009. In 2018 he held a visiting post at the University of Queensland.
He Tweets (@iAlexanderBrown) and blogs for The Conversation, The Huffington Post UK, Eastminster and 1584.
He has been a witness on The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, in 2021, 2023, and 2024.
He is the author of two major studies on behalf of the Council of Europe, looking at Models of Governance of Online Hate speech (2020) and Implementing the First Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (2023) respectively.
His Impact Case Study (Combating hate speech) was included in the UEA REF2021 submission under UoA-30.
Alexander has published extensively across several fields of political and legal theory and his research has been cited on over 1,500 occassions. His full Google Scholar citations record can be found here.
He is also the author of seven research monographs:
- Hate Speech Frontiers: Exploring the Limits of the Ordinary and Legal Concepts (with Adriana Sinclair) (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- An Ethics of Political Communication (Routledge, 2021)
- The Politics of Hate Speech Laws (with Adriana Sinclair) (Routledge, 2020)
- A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination (Routledge, 2015)
- Personal responsibility: Why it Matters (Continuum, 2009)
- Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Equality: Domestic and Global Perspectives (Palgrave, 2009)
From the listed website: Alexander Brown is Associate Professor (Reader) in Political and Legal Theory.
He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University College London (UCL) (2005). He was a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Political Science at UCL (2005-9) before coming to UEA in September 2009. In 2018 he held a visiting post at the University of Queensland.
He Tweets (@iAlexanderBrown) and blogs for The Conversation, The Huffington Post UK, Eastminster and 1584.
He has been a witness on The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, in 2021, 2023, and 2024.
He is the author of two major studies on behalf of the Council of Europe, looking at Models of Governance of Online Hate speech (2020) and Implementing the First Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (2023) respectively.
His Impact Case Study (Combating hate speech) was included in the UEA REF2021 submission under UoA-30.
Alexander has published extensively across several fields of political and legal theory and his research has been cited on over 1,500 occassions. His full Google Scholar citations record can be found here.
He is also the author of seven research monographs:
- Hate Speech Frontiers: Exploring the Limits of the Ordinary and Legal Concepts (with Adriana Sinclair) (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- An Ethics of Political Communication (Routledge, 2021)
- The Politics of Hate Speech Laws (with Adriana Sinclair) (Routledge, 2020)
- A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination (Routledge, 2015)
- Personal responsibility: Why it Matters (Continuum, 2009)
- Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Equality: Domestic and Global Perspectives (Palgrave, 2009)
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