Author : Jyotirmaya Sharma
Publisher : Context
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ahiṃsā
ISBN : 9390679605
Elusive Non-violence
Jyotirmaya Sharma
Elusive Non Violence
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Nonviolent Social Movements
Stephen Zunes,Sarah Beth Asher,Lester Kurtz
Author : Stephen Zunes,Sarah Beth Asher,Lester Kurtz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781577180753
Nonviolent Social Movements by Stephen Zunes,Sarah Beth Asher,Lester Kurtz Pdf
Nonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.
Mahatma Gandhi
Dennis Dalton
Author : Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231530392
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Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of Gandhi's methods and the strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, drawing a fascinating juxtaposition that enriches the biography of all three figures and asserts Gandhi's relevance to the study of race and political leadership in America. Dalton situates Gandhi within the "clash of civilizations" debate, identifying the implications of his work on continuing nonviolent protests. He also extensively reviews Gandhian studies and adds a detailed chronology of events in Gandhi's life.
The Good Boatman
Rajmohan Gandhi
Author : Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014025563X
The Good Boatman by Rajmohan Gandhi Pdf
A new and illuminating portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been the subject of over a dozen well-regarded biographies, yet key aspects of the man still prove elusive. In this book, Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and an acclaimed biographer and scholar, attempts to understand the phenomenon that was Gandhi. This he does by examining in detail dominant and varied themes of Gandhi's life"his unsuccessful bid to keep India united, his attitude towards caste and untouchability; his relationship with those whose empire he challenged; his controversial experiments with chastity; his views on God, truth and non-violence; and his selection of heirs to lead a new-born nation. For a generation growing up on images of a simplified Father of the Nation and apostle of non-violence frozen in statues or reduced to a few predictable strokes of an artist's pen, this biography offers a rewarding insight into the man, his victories and his defeats.
My Non-violence
Mahatma Gandhi
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Ahiṃsā
ISBN : UOM:39015006571122
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Elusive Jannah
Cawo M. Abdi
Author : Cawo M. Abdi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452945057
Elusive Jannah by Cawo M. Abdi Pdf
As a Somali working since high school in the United Arab Emirates, Osman considers himself “blessed” to be in a Muslim country, though citizenship, with the security it offers, remains elusive. For Ardo, smuggled out of Somalia to join her husband in South Africa, insecurities are of a more immediate, physical kind, and her economic prospects and legal status are more uncertain. Adam, in the United States—a destination often imagined as an earthly Eden, or jannah, by so many of his compatriots—now sees heaven in a return to Somalia. The stories of these three people are among the many that emerge from mass migration triggered by the political turmoil and civil war plaguing Somalia since 1988. And they are among the diverse collection presented in eloquent detail in Elusive Jannah, a remarkable portrait of the very different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and the United States. Somalis in the UAE, a relatively closed Muslim nation, are a minority within a large South Asian population of labor migrants. In South Africa, they are part of a highly racialized and segregated postapartheid society. In the United States they find themselves in a welfare state with its own racial, socioeconomic, and political tensions. A comparison of Somali settlements in these three locations clearly reveals the importance of immigration policies in the migrant experience. Cawo M. Abdi’s nuanced analysis demonstrates that a full understanding of successful migration and integration must go beyond legal, economic, and physical security to encompass a sense of religious, cultural, and social belonging. Her timely book underscores the sociopolitical forces shaping the Somali diaspora, as well as the roles of the nation-state, the war on terror, and globalization in both constraining and enabling their search for citizenship and security.
Elusive Peace
Douglas E. Noll
Author : Douglas E. Noll
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781616144180
Elusive Peace by Douglas E. Noll Pdf
This in-depth analysis goes behind the headlines to understand why crucial negotiations fail. The author argues that diplomats often enter negotiations with flawed assumptions about human behavior, sovereignty, and power. Essentially, the international community is using a model of European diplomacy dating back to the 18th century to solve the complex problems of the 21st century. Through numerous examples, the author shows that the key failure in current diplomatic efforts is the entrenched belief that nations, through their representatives, will act rationally to further their individual political, economic, and strategic interests. However, the contemporary scientific understanding of how people act and see their world does not support this assumption. On the contrary, research from decision-making theory, behavioral economics, social neuropsychology, and current best practices in mediation indicate that emotional and irrational factors often have as much, if not more, to do with the success or failure of a mediated solution. Reviewing a wide range of conflicts and negotiations, Noll demonstrates that the best efforts of negotiators often failed because they did not take into account the deep-seated values and emotions of the disputing parties. In conclusion, Noll draws on his own long experience as a professional mediator to describe the process of building trust and creating a climate of empathy that is the key to successful negotiation and can go a long way toward resolving even seemingly intractable conflicts.
Elusive Justice
Donny Meertens
Author : Donny Meertens
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299325602
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Gender, Violence, Refugees
Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Ulrike Krause
Author : Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Ulrike Krause
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336171
Gender, Violence, Refugees by Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Ulrike Krause Pdf
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return. The essays show how these factors lead to various forms of direct, indirect and structural violence. This ranges from discussions of norms reflected in policy documents and practise, the relationship between relief structures and living conditions in camps, to forced military recruitment and forced return, and covers countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
A Restatement of Religion
Jyotirmaya Sharma
Author : Jyotirmaya Sharma
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300197402
A Restatement of Religion by Jyotirmaya Sharma Pdf
Offers a portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. This work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as "Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image.
Violence and Political Theory
Elizabeth Frazer,Kimberly Hutchings
Author : Elizabeth Frazer,Kimberly Hutchings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536733
Violence and Political Theory by Elizabeth Frazer,Kimberly Hutchings Pdf
Is politics necessarily violent? Does the justifiability of violence depend on whether it is perpetrated to defend or upend the existing order – or perhaps on the way in which it is conducted? Is violence simply direct physical harm, or can it also be structural, symbolic, or epistemic? In this book, Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberley Hutchings explore how political theorists, from Niccolo Machiavelli to Elaine Scarry, have addressed these issues. They engage with both defenders and critics of violence in politics, analysing their diverse justificatory and rhetorical strategies in order to draw out the enduring themes of these debates. They show how political theorists have tended to evade the central difficulties raised by violence by either reducing it to a neutral tool or identifying it with something quite distinct, such as justice or virtue. They argue that, because violence is necessarily wrapped up with hierarchical and exclusive structures and imaginaries, legitimising it in terms of the ends that it serves, or how it is perpetrated, no longer makes sense. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in areas ranging from the ethics of terror and war to radical and revolutionary political thought.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Ved Mehta
Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241505021
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles by Ved Mehta Pdf
Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
This Is an Uprising
Mark Engler,Paul Engler
Author : Mark Engler,Paul Engler
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781568585147
This Is an Uprising by Mark Engler,Paul Engler Pdf
Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States, a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, a wave of uprisings against dictatorship in the Middle East, or a tent city on Wall Street that spreads throughout the country, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays them as being as spontaneous and unpredictable. In This is an Uprising, political analysts Mark and Paul Engler uncover the organization and well-planned strategies behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. This is an Uprising traces the evolution of civil resistance, providing new insights into the contributions of early experimenters such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., groundbreaking theorists such as Gene Sharp and Frances Fox Piven, and contemporary practitioners who have toppled repressive regimes in countries such as South Africa, Serbia, and Egypt. Drawing from discussions with activists now working to defend human rights, challenge corporate corruption, and combat climate change, the Englers show how people with few resources and little influence in conventional politics can nevertheless engineer momentous upheavals. Although it continues to prove its importance in political life, the strategic use of nonviolent action is poorly understood. Nonviolence is usually studied as a philosophy or moral code, rather than as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. This is an Uprising corrects this oversight. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, and if we decline to incorporate them into our view of how societies progress, then we pass up the chance to fully grasp a critical phenomenon—and to harness its power to create lasting change.
The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:sa67004968
The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf
Cascades of Violence
John Braithwaite,Bina D'Costa
Author : John Braithwaite,Bina D'Costa
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760461904
Cascades of Violence by John Braithwaite,Bina D'Costa Pdf
As in the cascading of water, violence and nonviolence can cascade down from commanding heights of power (as in waterfalls), up from powerless peripheries, and can undulate to spread horizontally (flowing from one space to another). As with containing water, conflict cannot be contained without asking crucial questions about which variables might cause it to cascade from the top-down, bottom up and from the middle-out. The book shows how violence cascades from state to state. Empirical research has shown that nations with a neighbor at war are more likely to have a civil war themselves (Sambanis 2001). More importantly in the analysis of this book, war cascades from hot spot to hot spot within and between states (Autesserre 2010, 2014). The key to understanding cascades of hot spots is in the interaction between local and macro cleavages and alliances (Kalyvas 2006). The analysis exposes the folly of asking single-level policy questions like do the benefits and costs of a regime change in Iraq justify an invasion? We must also ask what other violence might cascade from an invasion of Iraq? The cascades concept is widespread in the physical and biological sciences with cascades in geology, particle physics and the globalization of contagion. The past two decades has seen prominent and powerful applications of the cascades idea to the social sciences (Sunstein 1997; Gladwell 2000; Sikkink 2011). In his discussion of ethnic violence, James Rosenau (1990) stressed that the image of turbulence developed by mathematicians and physicists could provide an important basis for understanding the idea of bifurcation and related ideas of complexity, chaos, and turbulence in complex systems. He classified the bifurcated systems in contemporary world politics as the multicentric system and the statecentric system. Each of these affects the others in multiple ways, at multiple levels, and in ways that make events enormously hard to predict (Rosenau 1990, 2006). He replaced the idea of events with cascades to describe the event structures that 'gather momentum, stall, reverse course, and resume anew as their repercussions spread among whole systems and subsystems' (1990: 299). Through a detailed analysis of case studies in South Asia, that built on John Braithwaite's twenty-five year project Peacebuilding Compared, and coding of conflicts in different parts of the globe, we expand Rosenau's concept of global turbulence and images of cascades. In the cascades of violence in South Asia, we demonstrate how micro-events such as localized riots, land-grabbing, pervasive militarization and attempts to assassinate political leaders are linked to large scale macro-events of global politics. We argue in order to prevent future conflicts there is a need to understand the relationships between history, structures and agency; interest, values and politics; global and local factors and alliances.