The ideological significance of “institutional neutrality” mandates in state-level campus speech legislation

Q2 Social Sciences First Amendment Studies Pub Date : 2019-05-20 DOI:10.1080/21689725.2019.1601581
Ben Medeiros
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ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the “institutional neutrality” provisions commonly included in recent state-level “campus free speech” legislation. I argue that their normative promotion of “neutrality” in fact reinforces ideologies of colorblindness, neoliberal individualism, and corporate hegemony. To perform the analysis, I examine the text of the bills and the intellectual lineage from which they descend in conjunction with statements by their proponents and allies in the campus speech debates. The theoretical significance of this analysis thus lies in further interrogating how the norms of the liberal free-speech tradition are imbued with ideological meaning. Relatedly, the article shows that the logic of older critiques regarding media industry concentration and the laissez-faire “marketplace” framework can also be applied to calls for educational institutions to strive for “neutrality.”
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国家级校园言论立法中“制度中立”授权的思想意义
摘要本文主要研究近年来国家级“校园言论自由”立法中普遍包含的“机构中立”条款。我认为,他们对“中立”的规范性宣传实际上强化了无视肤色、新自由主义个人主义和企业霸权的意识形态。为了进行分析,我研究了法案的文本和它们的知识分子血统,并结合了它们的支持者和盟友在校园演讲辩论中的陈述。因此,这一分析的理论意义在于进一步探究自由言论自由传统的规范是如何被灌输意识形态意义的。与此相关的是,这篇文章表明,对媒体行业集中和自由放任的“市场”框架的旧批评的逻辑也可以适用于呼吁教育机构争取“中立”。
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期刊介绍: First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).
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