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Author: Bernard Harcourt

Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue on Satyagraha

December 2, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt A robust theory of satyagraha is exceptionally demanding—for many, unbearably so. Gandhi’s writings are of unparalleled exigency: one must take the burdens of injustice on oneself, turn suffering onto oneself, purify oneself as an exemplar to… Continue Reading →

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Banu Bargu | Gandhi’s Fasts

November 29, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Banu Bargu “Who is the true warrior – he who keeps death always as a bosom-friend, or he who controls the death of others?” – Gandhi Launching the inaugural session of this year’s 13/13, Bernard Harcourt informs us that… Continue Reading →

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Uday Singh Mehta | On Satyagraha

November 28, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Uday Singh Mehta On the morning of February 24, 1919, in a context vitiated by the recent introduction of the Rowlatt Bills, which proposed to all but explicitly suspend the individual rights of Indians, along with their rights of… Continue Reading →

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A Conversation between Uday Mehta and Akeel Bilgrami

November 27, 2017Bernard Harcourt

Click here to read Uday Singh Mehta in Conversation with Akeel Bilgrami at Permanent Black  

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Karuna Mantena | Theoretical Foundations of Satyagraha

November 25, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Karuna Mantena Origins Although boycotts, political fasts, non-resistance, and civil disobedience had existed in politics before, Gandhi’s innovations in nonviolent politics in the early 20th century was a crucial moment of crystallization.  Gandhi was the first to self-consciously theorize… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to Satyagraha

November 25, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt “For my ambition is no less than to convert the British people through non-violence, and thus make them see the wrong they have done to India.” — Mahatma Gandhi, Letter to the Viceroy, March 2, 1930… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Epilogue on #BlackLivesMatter

November 18, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt At our seminar on Uprising 4/13: #BlackLivesMatter, Kendall Thomas referred to the movement for Black lives as “a movement of movements.” The term, I think, perfectly captures the diversity of groups, projects, alliances, and organizations that… Continue Reading →

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Elias Alcantara | #BlackLivesMatter: Movements, Advocacy, and Policy

November 9, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Elias Alcantara During my five-year tenure serving in the Obama Administration, I followed closely the evolution and ultimate eruption of the events that took the #BlackLivesMatter movement to the national and international stage. For me, it was incredibly personal,… Continue Reading →

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Deva Woodly | #BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

November 1, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Deva Woodly “I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison 1787  “We who believe in… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to #BlackLivesMatter

October 31, 2017Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” — Ella Baker, NAACP field secretary, quoted by Professor Barbara Ransby in “Black Lives Matter is Democracy in Action” in The New York Times “The model of the black preacher… Continue Reading →

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