ISBN:
0415437407
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9780415437400
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 46
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality : Global Perspectives
DDC:
303.6/1
Keywords:
Gandhi Congresses Teachings
;
Gandhi Congresses Influence
;
Civil disobedience Congresses
;
Nonviolence Congresses
Abstract:
Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts are revisited by tracing their genealogies in multiple histories of world contact and by foregrounding their relevance to contemporary struggles to regain the 'humane' in the midst of global conflict
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Global state of war and moral vernaculars of nonviolence: Rethinking Gandhi in a new world order; Part I: Worlding the Gandhian everyday: Food, medicine and fasts; Chapter 2: Ahimsa and other animals: The genealogy of an immature politics; Chapter 3: The quack whom we know: Illness and nursing in Gandhi; Chapter 4: Emptied of all but love: Gandhiji's first public fast; Part II: Of friendship, law and language: Shaping Gandhian 'weakness'; Chapter 5: Gandhi moves: Intentional communities and friendship
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6: Gandhi: The transformation of a South African lawyer 1897-1898Chapter 7: Only one word, properly altered: Gandhi and the question of the veshya; Part III: Carrying Gandhi over: Global peace movements; Chapter 8: Globalising Gandhi: Translation, reinvention, application, transformation; Chapter 9: Gandhiji in Burma, and Burma in Gandhiji; Chapter 10: Nonviolence and long hot summers: Black women's welfare-rights struggles in 1960s' Baltimore; Part IV: Interlocuting with modernity: Gandhi at home and in the world; Chapter 11: Josephus: Traitor or Gandhian avant la lettre?
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12: Homespun wisdom: Gandhi, technology and nationalismChapter 13: Vernacular cosmopolitanism: World historical readings of Gandhi and Ambedkar; Index
Note:
Based on presentations at a symposium on Gandhi held in late 2004 on the premises of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University --T.p verso
,
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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