Cloth: 978-90-485-7711-8

eISBN: 978-90-485-7896-2 (ePub)

eISBN: 978-90-485-7895-5 (PDF)

Censorship of history education takes place around the world. A striking feature of recent examples is that they often coincide with challenges to democratic governance. This book examines this interplay between censorship and self-censorship in history education and so-called democratic backsliding. It does so in two parts. The first brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics, high school teachers and human rights advocates to assess the characteristics of censorship and self-censorship in Brazil, India, Hungary and the United States. Their analyses move between local, national and transnational developments to capture the overlaps and differences between state and non-state censorial practices and strategies of resistance. The second, thematic part explores some of the formal characteristics of contemporary censorship of history education, including the impact of social media, continuities of colonialism and the challenges against gender and sexuality education.

Ruben Zeeman is the coordinator of the Network of Concerned Historians, a human rights network documenting the censorship of history producers around the world. He graduated in comparative history in 2024 from the Central European University in Vienna. He has published various pieces on censorship of history and backsliding democracy in popular and academic journals.

Educational Policy & Reform, Education

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