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Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence: Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism


ISBN13: 9780415859769
Published: April 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2011)
Price: £38.99
Hardback edition , ISBN13 9780415565158



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This book employs the theoretical framework of ‘speech act theory’ to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech.

An analysis of the relation between speech and action offers a promising way of clarifying confusion over the contested status of speech, which advocates violence as a political strategy. This account reflects an understanding of philosophical issues about both the nature of freedom and speech and how these issues can be applied to concrete legal problems.

This approach will shed new light on the problems of the sedition laws and how they might be remedied by providing a conceptual account of the nature of speech and its relation to action. On the basis of J.L Austin’s account of verdictive and exercitive speech acts, it is argued that while all speech acts are ‘conduct’ in a narrow sense, not all of them have the power to produce effects.

This philosophical account will have legal consequences for how we classify speech acts deemed to be dangerous, or to cause harm. It also suggests that because speech can evoke or constitute action or conduct in certain circumstances, modern versions of sedition laws might in principle be defensible, but not in their current form. On the basis of this account, it is argued that the harms caused or constituted by speech can be located in the authority of the speaker.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Contents:
Introduction ;1. Modern Sedition Law and the 'Glorification' of Terrorism: A Legislative Overview ;2. Free Speech and Democracy: The problem of 'line-drawing' ;3. Can Saying So Make it So: The relation between speech and action ;4. Speech and Harm ;5. Truth, Autonomy, and the Marketplace of Ideas ;6. Imitation, belief formation and media technologies ;7. Policy Implications ;8. Conclusion