Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary

The paper investigates the conceptual dichotomy of violence and nonviolence in reference to the self-immolations that have been taking place in Tibet for the last several years. First using the insights of Hannah Arendt to distinguish between the categories of violent, nonviolent and peaceful, I app...

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Main Author: Soboslai, John 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2015
In: Open theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 146–159
Further subjects:B Tibetan Buddhism
B Self-immolation
B Transgression
B Violence and Nonviolence
B Power
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