Side Of Freedom Research Articles

Risk as the Back Side of Freedom in Modern Society

Risk as the Back Side of Freedom in Modern Society

Black Lives Matter: Police Brutality, Media and Injustice in "The Hate U Give," "Dear White People," and "On the Other Side of Freedom"

This paper aims to explore the connection between activism and the use of social media in contemporary stories, belonging to different genres. The study scrutinizes two literary works, Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give (2017), DeRay McKesson’s memoir On the Other Side of Freedom (2018), and a TV series directed and written by Justin Simien–Dear White People (2017). With a methodological approach constituted by works of sociology, history, and cultural studies, this text-focused analysis exposes the intersection of activism, literature, and television. Different genres address the same issues with a common ground: with the support and filter of social media, these stories reveal incidents of police brutality, and episodes traceable to the rise of#BlackLivesMatter. Moreover, the protagonists of these narratives find in activism a way to accomplish personal realization. All in all, the results of this investigation illustrate how social media are not the primary focus in the narration of moments of crisis or change, but slowly acquire a central role in the characters’ interactions and in the dynamics connected with forms of protests. McKesson’s memoir differs in its personal and specific representation of the use of social networks as an essential instrument for activism in the twenty-first century.

Some Aspects of the Modern Understanding of Liberty in Law

In contrast to the philosophical (moral and religious) and psychological side of freedom, the legal side of freedom is poorly studied. This article is intended to fill this gap. As a result of the study, the author reveals the difference between freedom in law and freedom of the individual, reveals their characteristic features, and also substantiates the criterion of differentiation of subjective right and freedom in law.

The other side of freedom: On the sociality of ethics

The social character of ethics is best revealed by exploring the complex dynamics linking individuals’ freedom to moral requirements. In this article, we consider James Laidlaw’s influential proposal that an anthropology of ethics makes freedom central to what is distinctively ethical in human life, but we argue that it unduly restricts the proposed scope of anthropology. This account of freedom is both overly cognitive, focusing on reflection, viewed as involving distance, decision, reasoning and doubt, and too individualistic, downplaying the importance of freedom’s normative background and excluding from consideration many documented forms of ethical experience. We propose instead an alternative, more open-ended conceptualization of freedom, distinguishing a concept of freedom that differs from its widely varying conceptions, and drawing on ethnographic material from the Hunza Valley in Northern Pakistan and elsewhere to illustrate multiple ways in which the constitution of selves and normative constraints impinge on one another.

‘To favor the side of freedom’: judicial opinions and the law of slavery

ABSTRACTThis essay uses the appellate judicial opinions in more than 800 suits for freedom from across the United States to analyze the additional commentary antebellum judges included when issuing their decisions. Judges used arguments that mirrored broader debates between abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates, while also upholding the central importance of the rule of law. In doing so, they sought to defend the judicial system from the many challenges brought by African Americans and other anti-slavery activists. Regardless of their own individual beliefs about slavery, judges often chose to frame their written opinions around appeals to morality. The use of moral arguments allowed judges to anticipate the positions of African Americans and their supporters and then render these ideas irrelevant in the face of positive laws supporting slavery. The decisions they made had real consequences for future legal pathways to freedom, and the ways judges chose to structure their decisions reveal both awareness and anxiety over the power of judicial challenges to the institution of slavery.

The carceral side of freedom

ABSTRACTWhen nationalistic narratives implore citizens to recall progressive values in their history, as some American politicians have in the recent past, do we also remember the cost, and those at whose expense those values are gained? The historic site of Fort Snelling in Minnesota (USA) has been reconstructed and interpreted as a frontier fort, opening the west to settlers. Yet the site also has witnessed the failed promises to Native peoples, the ambivalent status of enslaved African Americans in non-slavery territories, and the struggles to belong by Japanese American soldiers whose rights as citizens had been abrogated. In this article I outline the challenges in remembering and acknowledging difficult aspects of history at this public heritage site which are often grounded in structures of whiteness. But I also consider the potentials for recognition, and perhaps healing and coalition-building, by shifting focus to the landscape and materiality of a carceral state.

The Shadow Side of Freedom: Building the Religious Counterculture

The Shadow Side of Freedom: Building the Religious Counterculture

The Far Side of Freedom: Torah and Autonomy

The Far Side of Freedom: Torah and Autonomy

Freedom versus Control: Comment on "Behavioral decision research, legislation, and society: Three cases" by Max H. Bazerman

Of course I agree with Prof. Bazerman. I agree that the field of behavioral decision research is neglected. It is my field too, and a basic finding of psychology is that people feel that their own ideas are given insufficient attention. I also agree with all the findings that are cited, and their application to the cases under discussion.I could stop here, but to make this comment a bit longer, I would like to discuss an issue that runs through Bazerman's article. In all of the cases, he stands on the side of regulation or law, and against the side of freedom. The term freedom isn't quite what I mean, because we are talking about the freedom to kill people with cigarettes or defraud them out of their savings. Maybe anarchy would be a better term, but the line between anarchy and liberty is not a sharp one, and I want to call attention to a real problem.I would like to discuss some findings from our field that might weigh in against regulation. These include the undermining or crowding out of trustworthiness, a kind of isolation that is similar to what Bazerman discusses, an isolation that leads to a sort of local repair heuristic that is at this point largely speculative, and the danger of imposition of moralistic values.This paper is a comment on Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases by Max H. Bazerman which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2206416.

On Paulo Freire's Debt to Psychoanalysis: Authority on the Side of Freedom

Paulo Freire's major work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, owes adebt to psychoanalysis. In particular, as this paper argues,Freire's account of teacher authority needs to be understoodthrough psychoanalytic sensibilities. Paulo Freire maintains thatteacher authority can be ``on the side of freedom.'' This is ahighly charged claim given that liberalist traditions generallycast authority as the enemy of freedom. Breaking with liberalunderstandings of authority, Freire's ``authority on the sideof freedom'' is a matter of maintaining the delicate psychicbalance that leads neither to domination nor to submission.This paper investigates how such an authoritative balance functions.

Nineteenth century disciplinary reform and the prohibition against talking policemen

Police in liberal democracies are both free citizens and accountable public agents. They are under strong restrictions of accountability in their exercise of authority but also have a powerful right to make decisions about individual freedoms; while labouring under tight legal and administrative constraints, they are themselves individually free. The unique role of the public police officer in this balance between private freedoms and public constraints has been an accomplishment which has required pro‐active policy. Such policy has had to maintain the police officer in the public/private divide while adapting broad transitions of liberal governance. This paper examines nineteenth century disciplinary reforms in policing in Canada and the prohibitions on the discourse between the police and the public. It is contended that this prohibition acted as a mechanism in the maintenance of the balance of this divide in police professionalization. The prohibition is consistent with Foucault's view of discipline as the other side of freedom.

The Far Side of FreedomObscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society. By Harry M. Clor Censorship of the Movies: The Social and Political Control of a Mass Medium. By Richard S. Randall The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill. By Charles Rembar

The Far Side of Freedom<i>Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society</i>. By Harry M. Clor <i>Censorship of the Movies: The Social and Political Control of a Mass Medium</i>. By Richard S. Randall <i>The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill</i>. By Charles Rembar

The Obscenity Cases: Grapes of Roth

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Obscenity Cases: Grapes of RothC. Peter MagrathC. Peter Magrath Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Supreme Court Review Volume 19661966 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/scr.1966.3108739 Views: 10Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1966 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Milner S. Ball Constitution, Court, Indian Tribes, American Bar Foundation Research Journal 12, no.11 (Nov 2018): 1–140.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1987.tb00531.xHarrell R. Rodgers Censorship Campaigns in Eighteen Cities, American Politics Quarterly 2, no.44 (Nov 2016): 371–392.https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X7400200401 Robert J. Steamer The Far Side of Freedom, Polity 2, no.22 (Nov 2016): 202–212.https://doi.org/10.2307/3234099 Donald W. Crawford Can Disputes Over Censorship Be Resolved?, Ethics 78, no.22 (Oct 2015): 93–108.https://doi.org/10.1086/291665