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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 269–274.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of the latter. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 DOXA AT LARGE
The Paradox of Nonviolence
Faisal Devji
Early in July of 1937, a well-known Nazi journalist, Schutz-
staffel (SS...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 285–297.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Isabel Hofmeyr Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is a seminal text setting out the Mahatma's key ideas on nonviolence and civil disobedience. The book takes the form of a dialogue between a Reader and an Editor discussing questions of how British India should best obtain home rule. Most scholarship on the book...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 431–448.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Shruti Kapila This article aims to reconstruct Gandhi as a political thinker. In so doing it argues that truth rather than nonviolence was the central category of Gandhian politics. Truth for Gandhi was a capacity that broke with the consensual and took the form of an insistent visibility. Gandhi...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 449–469.
Published: 01 May 2011
... as hostile combatants. They were his moral unequals, the constitutive ellipses of satyagraha, without which nonviolence itself might lose its precarious ethical equilibrium. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Thanks to Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji for insightful readings of previous...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 265–268.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and nonviolence. In the process Munna comes
to realize the virtues of satyagraha, or truth-force, and abandons his thuggish
ways. Provoking a revival of interest in the Mahatma among a younger gener-
ation of Indians, the film also signaled their unwillingness to identify Gandhi
as a historical figure...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... claims for
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Public Culture nonviolence as truth that appear to leave absolutely no space for Tilak. And yet, in
much the same manner that Shruti Kapila (2007: 124 – 25) was drawn to the curi...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2018) 30 (3): 367–392.
Published: 01 September 2018
... been discriminatory in terms of the types of person and forms of conviction that it seeks to protect. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 conviction freedom of conscience human rights nonviolence sexuality In January 2015 Amnesty International rejected a proposal to introduce...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 May 2007
....
After innumerable delays, the case of Bil’in will again be coming up before
the Israeli Supreme Court in the next few days. Over the last twenty months,
Bil’in has come to symbolize the mode of Gandhian-style, nonviolent resistance
adopted by Palestinian villages west of Jerusalem that are to lose...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 377–394.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to connect the contradictions suggested
by these artistic interventions to an interpretation of Gandhi’s own position on
nonviolence as an aesthetic category or as a mode of expression suggested specifi-
cally by a reading of Hind Swaraj.
Memento Mori
Gandhi objects, connected metonymically...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 199–208.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Sampson, and Richard Wilson all propose “coexistence”
as a model of thinking about nonviolence. Nader elaborates this with reference to
three possible topoi: an “ethnic division of labor,” “mutual tolerance” of religious
traditions...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 321–330.
Published: 01 May 2011
...
it suggested at the time was the blatant failure of a campaign of nonviolence to
overcome British colonial rule. It served to humble many Indian nationalists, most
significantly Gandhi himself. Seven years later, Gandhi expressed the following
in relation to the topic of Goa:
The India of the future...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 3–33.
Published: 01 January 1994
... the success of the powerful upstart down in Montgomery.
14 Young, charismatic and intensely sincere in his commitment to nonviolent
Public Culture direct action in the service of a black collective, King became a national sensation.
He also became an international...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 177–189.
Published: 01 May 2023
... with the capacity to generate both local and global activist networks. The Albany story is often a forgotten chapter of the civil rights movement. In the fall of 1961, two young leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—Charles Sherrod and Cordell Reagon—arrived in town and made...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., as Catherine Bolten ( 2016 ) has argued, was that public calls for peace and nonviolence served as a mask for more covert forms of intimidation, deal making, and dissimulation (see also Utas and Christensen 2016 ; Conteh and Harris 2014 ). With the 2012 process having been judged far more successful than...
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Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 471–480.
Published: 01 May 2011
... discourses on spirit, or Geist, is significant here. She
places Foucault’s reading of ascesis, or care of the self, alongside the vulnerable, irremediable sub-
ject of nonviolence. My interest in posing swaraj as self-making but not as a cure works along these
lines. See Leela Gandhi, “Spirits...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 25–28.
Published: 01 January 2013
... in check. The brutal suppression of Occupy and other protest
movements was a telling reminder of the hard power that rains down on any effort
to create a different mode of living, even one based on the most temperate civic
principles of nonviolent, free speech. The abject failure of empowered...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of nonviolence. Ashis Nandy explores the troubled
psyche of Pahwa, a young hoodlum turned genocidal Muslim killer. Found guilty
of the conspiracy charge, Pahwa served a reduced life sentence and was released
in 1964. Nandy located and interviewed Pahwa in the final years (1998–99) of his...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 411–429.
Published: 01 September 1993
... and his comrades were unwel-
come heroes, poor cousins in the story of the nationalist struggle for Indian
independence. They were patriots, but Bose’s anti-British sentiment and his links
with the Axis made him an embarrassment both to Gandhi’s nonviolence and
Nehru’s Fabian Anglophilia...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 299–319.
Published: 01 May 2011
... was in London, Gandhi engaged in debate
with Savarkar and other India House luminaries. The outcome was chastening; it
was clear that Gandhi was not finding much support from the young men around
India House for his nonviolent politics (Brown 1975: 21 – 84; Heehs 2000: 68 – 95;
Barooah 2004: 7 – 33...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
... the trigger, said during his trial that they had to kill Gandhi because he
betrayed the interests of the Hindus and the state of India by being partial to the
Muslims and pushing his harebrained ideas of soul force, nonviolence, fasting,
and countermodernity.9
Pahwa was caught almost immediately...
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