The Circulation of Nonviolence: Gandhi and the History of Global Politics

全球抗议运动已成为最近反对战争和企业权力运动的一个特点。抗议活动跨越国界的扩散扰乱了官方惯例，威胁到国家权力，并提出了关于全球公民身份的新问题。然而，人们对跨国扩散的历史、动态和新奇仍然只有模糊的了解。该项目将解决这种缺席问题。它侧重于甘地非暴力的传播，它提供了第一个比较，集体行动的扩散的长期研究。这将大大加强我们对目前正在改变政治和社会的进程的理解，并应丰富当代民主参与的实践。

Global protest movements have become a feature of recent campaigns against war and corporate power. The diffusion of protest across national boundaries disrupts official routine, threatens state power, and raises new questions about global citizenship. However, the history, dynamics and novelty of transnational diffusion is still only dimly understood. This project will address such absences. It focuses on the circulation of Gandhian nonviolence, and it offers the first comparative, long-term study of the diffusion of collective action. This will greatly enhance our understanding of the processes currently reshaping politics and society and should enrich the practice of contemporary democratic participation.