nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210419-184037-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210419s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210419-184037-0 doi eng 342 23 Schubert, Karsten Author aut Defending Plurality - Four Reasons Why We Need to Rethink Academic Freedom in Europe Schubert, Karsten Verfassungsblog 2021-04-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Academic freedom is under attack, both in authoritarian democracies, such as Hungary and Turkey, and in liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, the UK, France and Germany. However, dominant discourses about academic freedom and free speech in the global north, lately especially in France and Germany, focus on an alleged threat to academic freedom through "political correctness" and "cancel culture", that, under scrutiny, often turn out to be exactly the opposite, namely defences of plurality and critical voices. CC BY-SA 4.0 Academic Freedom Cancel Culture plurality Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/defending-plurality/ raw object