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The Ethics of Self-Rule: Violence and Masculinity in Contemporary South Africa
In the context of a near national panic concerning violence in South Africa, the question being posed is, what does it take to be a modern South African man? Aernout Zevenbergen (2008, xxvi), writing about violence and masculinity in Africa, asks, “What…The Paradox of Nonviolence
Early in July of 1937, a well-known Nazi journalist, Schutzstaffel (SS) officer, and adviser to Adolf Hitler named Roland von Strunk visited Gandhi at his ashram in Segaon. As befitted a National Socialist concerned with the cultivation of a nation’s…Guest Editors’ Letter: Itineraries of Self-Rule
In the 2006 Bollywood hit Lage raho Munna Bhai (Carry on Munna Bhai), a petty gangster named Munna is visited by the specter of Gandhi, who advises him on winning the affections of a radio announcer by deploying the tactics of love and nonviolence. In…Our Gandhi, Our Times
This remarkable special issue of Public Culture is the product of several years of fruitful dialogue among the editors, Ritu Birla, Faisal Devji, and the late Carol Breckenridge.Imagin(IN)g Racial France: Envoi
France is most cosmopolitan where it is least central. If the City of Lights is a cosmopolis, it is far less so in Saint-Germain- des- Près or the Marais, “les Champs,” or the sixteenth arrondissement than in its banlieues (disenfranchised suburbs).