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...Herzfeld resigned from theeditorial board of the Cambridge University Pressover the publisher's decision not to print a bookby Greek scholar Anastasia Karakasidou on thesubject of Macedonian statehood...
Herzfeld disputes CUP's fears of violent reprisals, claiming that CUP did not make a realistic assessment of the potential danger to their Greek employees. He attributes their fears to racist stereotypes of Greeks as "violent and uncontrollable." Karakasidou, who received police protection while at Harvard, says the issue is not nearly as volatile as it was two years ago. And Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Margaret B. Alexiou also concurs that the publication of the book would not seriously endanger CUP's employees in Greece...
Fortunately, Karakasidou's book will be published next year by the University of Chicago Press. However, CUP's decision not to publish the book, after a year-long review and revision process, remains troubling. We support Herzfeld and his academic colleagues at Harvard and other institutions who have criticized and protested CUP's policies. Currently, Herzfeld and Stephen Gudeman, a professor at the University of Minnesota, are circulating an e-mail message that urges professors not to submit manuscripts to CUP. This call for a boycott of CUP has been dubbed the "Internet Manifesto." However, Herzfeld is careful to stress...
...publishing house has the right to reject any manuscript it does not deem worthy of print. If Cambridge University Press deems Karakasidou's book unpublishable, Karakasidou has the right to peddle it to other presses. If the book has value, then the market system predicts that other presses will be willing to publish it. The staff quietly notes that the University of Chicago Press is willing...
...Karakasidou case is not one of censorship or academic freedom. It is the textbook example of the market system doing its job. Matt Howitt...