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As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal -- the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin's contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the second by Philip Pettit's neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints, hence the title of the proposed pamphlet: degrees of freedom. The point of departure is to approach freedom as a practice which is 'conditioned' by enclosures of power/knowledge which are also enclosures of the imagination. In terms of destination, the objective is to explore the question of how to breach such enclosures, thereby opening out spaces for alternative ways of practising freedom to emerge. The analysis will encompass three fields of practice and examine how freedom is drawing inwards around the freedom to compete in a zero-sum game among winners and losers. To get to grips with the 'how' of this requires dispensing with analytical tools that operate on the basis of dichotomy (such as power/resistance, freedom/domination, top-down/bottom-up) while also stretching the analysis across distinct-yet-related fields of action. The book will thus begin with a brief discussion that sets out key concepts and ideas before putting these to work through an analysis of 1. Sport & Academia, and 2. Art.

Freedom House's annual press freedom index, now covering 195 countries and territories, has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Freedom of the Press 2008 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions

Freedom is commonly recognized as the struggle for basic liberties, societies based upon open dialogue, human rights and democracy. The idea of freedom is central to western ideas of modernity, but this engaging, accessible book argues that if we look back at the history of the idea of freedom, then what we mean by it is far more contested than we might think. To what extent does freedom have a 'social' component, and how is it being reshaped by our dominant consumer society? This book represents a wake-up call to all those who thought our basic ideas of freedom were settled. Today, the West s

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations andFigures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Emancipation: An Unfinished Story -- Song as Enactment ofAncestral Memory -- Section 1- Sustaining the Memory -- A Weh Dem A Go? The Slave Trade of Jamaica -- The Memorialisation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Freedom Narratives -- Africans in Early English Jamaica (1655-1700): The Akan-Dominance Myth -- Freedom and Slavery in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba: From Spiritual Adaptation to Universal Magic -- Section II - Freedom Road -- Freedom Road: The Empowerment of the Enslaved Population by the Eighteenth Century -- The Nature of the Amerindian/European Encounter and Its Impact on theAmerindians -- Marginality or Activism: The Black Male and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica -- Section III - Rethinking Freedom -- 'All That is Buried is Not Dead': Public Histories and Legacies of Slavery in Post-Apartheid Cape Town -- The 1805 Haitian Constitution: The Making of Slave Freedom in the Atlantic World -- Section IV - Legacy -- The Legacies of the Transatlantic Trade inEnslaved Africans and Human Development Challenges: The Role of Education -- Two Hundred Years since the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Section V - Unfinished Business -- I Remember Because I Am Free: Thoughts on the Bicentennial Celebration of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Black Resurrection -The Rastafari Perspective -- Unfinished Business: Ignored Voices -- Epilogue Reparations for African Enslavement: Preparing the Caribbean Case -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Examines the collaborative platform Two Fuse examine the practice of freedom in the context of neo-liberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an equality of inequality.

AbstractIn this paper, I want to discuss how particular conceptions of academic freedom can overshadow issues of justice for racialized members of the academy. In particular, the question I will explore is how we can begin to think of academic freedom in relation to, and not against, freedom from structural racial discrimination. I will explore this question in relation to presentations made at a conference on academic freedom, and through the examination of a few notable cases (both historical and contemporary) of academic freedom and racism in the classroom as well as in the blogosphere and social media.

AbstractFreedom from fear, expressly recognized in the foundational human rights treaties, has been forgotten in human rights discourse. Fear can have profound behavioural impacts. Without recognition of the importance of freedom from fear, the fulfilment of many human rights is compromised, particularly physical security. Politico-legal thought, from Montesquieu and Blackstone, has long identified the significance of security of the person and the tension between liberty and security. Comparative exploration of contemporary case law reveals disparate approaches to the recognition of security of the person as an individual right which the State is obliged to protect. Increasing the salience of security of the person and the dimension of freedom from fear in human rights decision making raises the difficult issue of balancing conflicting rights.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 195 countries and 14 territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide.