Reading Gandhi in the twenty-first century
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Reading Gandhi in the twenty-first century
(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- : hardback
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-133) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Niranjan Ramakrishnan examines the surprising extent to which Gandhi's writings still provide insight into current global tensions and the assumptions that drive them. This book explores how ideas Gandhi expressed over a century ago can be applied today to issues from terrorism to the environment, globalization to the 'Clash of Civilizations.' In particular it looks at Gandhi's emphasis on the small, the local, and the human - an emphasis that today begins to appear practical, attractive, and even inescapable. Written in an accessible style invoking examples from everyday happenings familiar to all, this concise volume reintroduces Gandhi to today's audiences in relevant terms.
Table of Contents
1. Prologue: A World at Sea 2. What's so Great about Gandhi, Anyway? 3. Gandhi in the Time of Terrorism 4. Privatization...Privation...Privacy 5. Globalization...of What? 6. A Fundamental(ist) Irony 7. Environmentalism 8. The C(l)ash of Civilizations 9. East Vs. West: Win, Lose or Draw? 10. Media Matters, Citizen Mutters 11. Technological Titans, Moral Midgets 12. Corruption and its Discontents 13. Of Suicides and Stock Markets 14. Unbroken Connectivity, Broken Lives: Industrialism and its Consequences 15. W(h)ither the State? 16. Epilogue: Where do we go from here?
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