WIN $150 GIFT VOUCHERS: ALADDIN'S GOLD
Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz, Austria. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice (2015), along with Hana Havelková.
[T]he book unquestionably unpacks thoughtfully several aspects of censorship under state socialism to offer a balanced appraisal of how academic authors navigated the era's constraints, with insights into more recent worlds of academic publishing. It will enrich future work in this area. * Slavic Review * Theoretically sophisticated and methodologically bold, this multivocal study engages with Czech and Hungarian scholars' memories of censorship in the 1970s-80s. Besides offering a vivid reimagining of state socialist power relations, it raises questions about the ethics of knowledge production in academia more generally - a problematic within which Oates-Indruchova brilliantly situates her own study. * Katherine Lebow, Associate Professor of History, Oxford University, UK * A meticulous study of the censorship of academic works in Soviet-era Czech and Hungarian academic publishing. What unfolds is a story partly of the mechanisms regimes generated to keep their ideology unchallenged, and partly of the authors' strategies to circumvent them. The book ends with chilling suggestions that these battles did not end with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but developed anew in current illiberal regimes. * Richard Dutton, Academy Professor of English, Ohio State University, US *
