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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Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015
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Open theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 146–159 |
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Tibetan Buddhism
B Self-immolation B Transgression B Violence and Nonviolence B Power |
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