Konkret Samtal - Censorship & free speech - Dr. Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies

Dr Pascal Lottaz is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University where he investigates neutrality in international relations, and directs the research network neutralitystudies.com.His recent books include Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System (Lexington Books, 2022), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019).The study of neutrality, as an academic subject in the fields of history and the social sciences, is concerned with the politics, laws, ethics, economics, norms, and other social aspects of states and international actors that attempt to maintain friendly or impartial relations with other states who are—or might become—parties to international conflict.Neutrality studies on youtube is a major channel in its niche. If Neutrality Studies were a printed publication, its 269,000 subscribers would place it in the same league as some of the most influential legacy titles in the world.Neutrality Studies now reaches an audience on the order of a solid regional newspaper like the Boston Globe or Chicago Tribune.But it’s better. And I don’t mean that I think it’s better. I mean, the quality of attention it generates is superior to the quality of attention that generalists generate. Nobody watches your his videos unless they are deeply and truly interested and paying attention. The opposite of doom scrolling, where you are watching something, but can for the life of you not repeat what you watched just moments ago. Topic:Freedom of speach and cencorship in the modern media landscape.Context & Current Situation:This sunday (the 11:th Januari 2026) you got cancelled on youtube.It took about a day to sort it out, but for that day, everything was up in the air and nobody knew where it would ultimately land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.