In this issue, Index on Censorship looks at the media manipulation that allows for the creation and punishment of monsters at home and abroad.
Manufacturing monsters
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CATEGORY: Magazine
This sporting li(f)e
Index examines the tarnished world of sport. Has commercialism destroyed sportsmanship? What is the significance of race in sport?
The privacy issue: Privacy on parade
In this issue, Index looks at who the enemies of privacy are and how, in a wired future, any of us have a private life.
Women who censor
Index untangles the disagreements and cultural differences over sex and violence, the right to abortion, wearing the veil, and confronts the women who believe in censorship as a means of protecting themselves, their daughters and their culture.
The new slavery
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the evolving nature of slavery – a virus that won’t go away.
Underexposed
In Underexposed, Index reveals the hidden history of the 20th century, the first to be minutely and entirely documented by camera.
After the fall
Index looks at the state of the world 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and asks: Where is the peace dividend?
Tribes
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the ruthless centre of colonial history, and celebrates the voices of the world’s tribes.
Big science
Index examines constraints on free expression in science and technology, and in doing so sheds new light on some of the most explosive issues of our time.
Word power
In celebration of the opening of the new library of Alexandria later this year, Index on Censorship magazine looks at the library as liberator.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.