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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Global State of War and Moral Vernaculars of Nonviolence: Reframing Gandhi in a New World Order Debjani Ganguly 2. Ahimsa and Other Animals: The Genealogy of an Immature Politics Leela Gandhi 3. The Quack Whom We Know: Illness and Nursing in Gandhi Sandhya Shetty 4. Emptied of All but Love: Gandhi’s First Public Fast Tridip Suhrud 5. Gandhi Moves: Intentional Communities and Friendship Tom Weber 6. From Lawyer to Civil Disobedient, 1897-1898: A Microcosm of Change Charles R. DiSalvo 7. Only One Word, Properly Altered: Gandhi and the Question of Veshya Ajay Skaria 8. Gandhi in Circulation: Translation, Reinvention, Application, Transformation Sean Scalmer 9. Gandhiji in Burma, Burma in Gandhiji Penny Edwards 10. Nonviolence and Long Hot Summers: Black Women’s Activism in 1960s Baltimore Rhonda Y. Williams 11. Josephus: Traitor or Gandhian avant la lettre? John Docker 12. Homespun Wisdom: Gandhi, Technology and Nationalism Anjali Roy 13. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: A World Historical Reading of Gandhi and Ambedkar Debjani Ganguly
