Censorship and Self-Censorship in History Education

Ruben Zeeman (ed.)

Censorship and Self-Censorship in History Education

A Comparative Approach to Backsliding Democracies

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.
Editor

Ruben Zeeman

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.
Title
Censorship and Self-Censorship in History Education
Subtitle
A Comparative Approach to Backsliding Democracies
Editor
Price
€ 141,00
ISBN
9789048577118
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
386
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Categories
Africa
Contemporary History
Education & Pedagogy
Europe
Global South
Middle East
South East Asia
Discipline
History, Art History, and Archaeology
Imprint
CEU PressCEU Press - Logo
Table of Contents
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Introduction - Ruben Zeeman - Transnational History Education and Backsliding Democracy
Regional Essays
1. Brazil
a. Paolo Otero dos Santos - The Diffuse Vigilance of History Teaching in Contemporary Brazil
b. Luanna Jales - Historical Visibility for Women, Black and Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and Latin America
c. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes - History, Sexuality and Gender Education: Intersections and Interactions in Brazil
2. Hungary
a. Andrea Petö and Flore Higuet - Illiberal History Education: The Case of Hungary
b. Péter Bihari - History Teaching in Hungary
c. Andreas Holtberget - History Teaching under Threat? Recent Cases from East-Central and Southeastern Europe
3. India
a. Aditya Mukherjee and Mridula Mukherjee - Weaponizing History: Threat to Democracy in India
b. Shraddha Kumbhojkar - History Textbooks in Maharashtra: Vernacular Realities
c. Adnaan Farooq - ‘Saffronization’ of the History Curriculum in India under the BJP
4. United States
a. Jeremy Young and Jacqueline Allain - State-Level Educational Censorship Legislation Affecting Colleges and Universities
b. Nelva Williamson - Teaching in the Age of Anti-History: A Teacher's Reflection
c. Mathias Möschel - European Critiques and Actions Against Critical Race Theory
Thematic Essays
1. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen - Teaching on Thin Ice: Social Media, Epistemic Conflict, and the Targeting of History Educators
2. Mariana Prandini Assis - Reimagining Gender and Sex Education as a Political Right
3. Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson and Samuel Adu-Gyamfi - The Hidden History Curriculum: Negotiated Gender History Education in Ghana
4. Antoon de Baets - History Education Moratoria during Transitions to Democracy
Conclusion
Eckhardt Fuchs and Wibke Westermeyer
Censorship in School Education
Index.

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