Publicising suppression
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74672
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Abstract
Publicity is one of the most powerful avenues for opposing suppression of intellectual dissent. Suppression usually takes the form of blocking publications or free speech, or of victimising those who hold the dissenting views, such as by harassment, smear campaigns and sackings. Publicity is an immediate challenge to suppression in two ways. First, it exposes or threatens to expose the suppressed views themselves. Second, it threatens to mobilise opposition to the practices, policies or power of the groups instituting the suppression.
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Publication Details
Martin, B. and Manwell, C. (1986). 'Publicising suppression', in B. Martin, C. Ann. Baker, C. Manwell and C. Pugh (Eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (pp. 253-256). Sydney: Angus and Robertson.