Drafting freedom to last: The Magna Carta's past and present influences
In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert Mc Crum, and Oxford University’s Stuart White consider what clauses they would draft into a 21st century version of the Magna Carta; from Mexico a review of its constitution and its flawed justice system; Turkish novelist Kaya Genc looks at the recent intimidation against Turkish female writers and Natasha Joseph reports from Johannesburg on allegations of witchcraft in South Africa, and how people take action into their own hands. With reports from the Ukraine and Russia on the information and propaganda war, and plus new poetry and a previously unpublished play extract.

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Drafting freedom to last: The Magna Carta's past and present influences
In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert Mc Crum, and Oxford University’s Stuart White consider what clauses they would draft into a 21st century version of the Magna Carta; from Mexico a review of its constitution and its flawed justice system; Turkish novelist Kaya Genc looks at the recent intimidation against Turkish female writers and Natasha Joseph reports from Johannesburg on allegations of witchcraft in South Africa, and how people take action into their own hands. With reports from the Ukraine and Russia on the information and propaganda war, and plus new poetry and a previously unpublished play extract.

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Drafting freedom to last: The Magna Carta's past and present influences

Drafting freedom to last: The Magna Carta's past and present influences

Drafting freedom to last: The Magna Carta's past and present influences

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In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert Mc Crum, and Oxford University’s Stuart White consider what clauses they would draft into a 21st century version of the Magna Carta; from Mexico a review of its constitution and its flawed justice system; Turkish novelist Kaya Genc looks at the recent intimidation against Turkish female writers and Natasha Joseph reports from Johannesburg on allegations of witchcraft in South Africa, and how people take action into their own hands. With reports from the Ukraine and Russia on the information and propaganda war, and plus new poetry and a previously unpublished play extract.


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ISBN-13: 9781473919327
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 07/24/2015
Series: Index on Censorship
Product dimensions: 8.10(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Editorial - Rachael Jolley
Part I: Special Report: Magna Carta and the Cause of Freedom
Chapter 2: Making a 21st-Century Magna Carta - Robert Mccrum, Hans-Joachim Neubauer, Danny Sriskandarajah, Rita El Khayat, Elif Shafak, Renata Avila, Ferial Haffajee, Stuart White
Chapter 3: 1215 and All That - John Crace
Chapter 4: Stripsearch Cartoon - Martin Rowson
Chapter 5: Battle Royal - Mark Fenn
Chapter 6: Land and Freedom? - Ritu Menon
Chapter 7: Give Me Liberty - Peter Kellner
Chapter 8: Constitutionally Challenged - Duncan Tucker
Chapter 9: Courting Disapproval - Shahira Amin
Chapter 10: Digging Into the Power System - Sue Branford
Chapter 11: Critical Role - Natasha Joseph
Chapter 12: Global View - Jodie Ginsberg
Part II: In Focus
Chapter 13: Brave New War - Andrei Aliaksandrau
Chapter 14: Propaganda War Obscures Russian Soldiers’ Deaths - Helen Womack
Chapter 15: Azeri Attack - Rebecca Vincent
Chapter 16: The Political is Personal - Arzu Geybullayeva
Chapter 17: Really Good Omens - Martin Rowson
Chapter 18: Police (In)Action - Simon Callow
Chapter 19: Drawing Fire - Rayma And Bonil
Chapter 20: Thoughts Policed - Max Wind-Cowie
Chapter 21: Media under Siege or a Freer Press? - Vicky Baker
Chapter 22: Turkey’s “Treacherous” Women Journalists - Kaya Genç
Chapter 23: Dark Arts - Nargis Tashpulatova
Chapter 24: Talk is Cheap - Steven Borowiec
Chapter 25: Fear of Faith - Jemimah Steinfeld
Chapter 26: Time Travel to Web of the Past and Future - Mike Godwin
Part III: Culture
Chapter 27: Language Lessons - Chen Xiwo
Chapter 28: Spirit Unleashed - Diane Fahey
Chapter 29: Diary Unlocked - Hanoch Levin
Chapter 30: Oz on Trial - John Kinsella
Chapter 31: Index around the World - Aimée Hamilton
Chapter 32: Humour on Record - Vicky Baker
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