Censures liégeoises (16e-21e s.)
The book history of Rona M. Fields's A Society on the Run (1973): A case study in the alleged suppression of psychologic...
Published in Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
The US psychologist Rona M. Field's book A Society on the Run (1973) offered a psychological account of the nature and effects of the Northern Irish Troubles at their peak in the early 1970s. The book was withdrawn shortly after publication by its publisher, Penguin Books Limited, and never reissued. Fields alleged publicly that the book had been s...
When Librarians Talk with Conservatives about Libraries
The article addresses the possibility of minimizing instances of book banning, program protest, director firing, and library defunding in conservative Republican communities. The aim is to suggest ways of reducing strife while preserving the maximum possible local access to socially just public library collections and services. It begins with an ex...
Theorising the Queer Optique through Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961).
Published in Journal of homosexuality
This analysis has two interlinked goals. First, drawing on Lee Edelman, Dudley Andrew and Laura Mulvey, it theorizes the male homosexual optique, a mode of address that is predicated on the relationship between a film, its context of reception and its spectator, and which undermines the heterosexual exigencies of classical narrative style to implic...
Drugacen pogled: Primerjava mentalitete kitajskega prebivalstva z Zahodom in sistemi nadzora
Leta 2000, ko je Kitajska prvic izrazila željo po nadzoru interneta, je takratni ameriški predsednik Bill Clinton dejal: »Nadzor bi bil podoben ‘pritrjevanju želatine na steno’« (Laskai, 2016: 195). To nalogo je Kitajska vzela izredno resno in leta 2006 je bil dokoncan t. i. »the Great Firewall« ali »Veliki kitajski požarni zid«, vecplasten sistem ...
Vpliv cenzure na prevajanje tuje literature v Sovjetski zvezi in v Španiji v času diktature Francisca Franca
Magistrsko delo se ukvarja s primerjavo vpliva uradne državne cenzure na prevajanje tuje literature v Sovjetski zvezi in v Španiji med diktaturo Francisca Franca. V obeh državah sta se po državljanskih vojnah vzpostavila totalitarna režima, ki sta uvedla cenzurni aparat za nadzorovanje vse literarne produkcije, vključno s prevodno literaturo. Tuja ...
A Policy Perspective on Regulating Disinformation in Romania during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Published in NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
Romania is one of the countries that adopted temporary sanctions against disinformation during the state of emergency, which lasted between March 16 and May 14, 2020. The scope of this paper is to analyze the decisions adopted by the National Authority for Administration and Regulation of Communications, which was the institution responsible for re...
The Historical Significance of Titicut Follies in Psychiatric Treatment: An Anti-Censorship Perspective.
Published in Psychological reports
Works of art and information judged as obscene can be censored or banned. This brief review evaluates the costs and benefits of censorship and the banning of artwork and information. In the history of psychology, Frederick Wiseman's film Titicut Follies epitomizes the disadvantages of concealing art content. Despite protecting the privacy of patien...
La réception en France de la musique soviétique : l'évolution de la censure de 1948 à 1958
Cet article étudie la réception en France des discours des autorités soviétiques sur la musique. La période de l’après-guerre est intéressante à plus d’un titre. Le paysage politique évolue avec les décès de Jdanov et Staline et deux décrets relatifs à la production musicale sont publiés en 1948 et 1958. Les bulletins de presse du ministère des Aff...
Racism and censorship in the editorial and peer review process
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Psychology aims to capture the diversity of our human experience, yet racial inequity ensures only specific experiences are studied, peer-reviewed, and eventually published. Despite recent publications on racial bias in research topics, study samples, academic teams, and publication trends, bias in the peer review process remains largely unexamined...
