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UNESCO’s 1950 Freedom and Culture contrasts totalitarian and democratic systems: ‘One is faith in an official truth and in the power of government to impose it. The other is faith in the continuing inventiveness of men’ (Bryson, 1950, p. 144). The 2011 Arab Awakening saw people re-asserting faith in themselves, coming together collectively, and shaking regimes across the Middle East. However insecurely and temporarily, their ‘acting and speaking together’ recreated a polis, a space where people explicitly manifested themselves and distinguished themselves through their public words and deeds (Arendt, 1998, [1958], p. 198).
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Pupavac, V. (2012). Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?. In: Language Rights. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284044_11
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