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    "pk": 5869,
    "title": "Narrative, Speech, and Action: Gandhi’s Satyagraha and the Constant Becoming of Truth",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In this paper, I explore Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, specifically his articulation and understanding of the conception of truth. For Gandhi, truth in the political sphere is not merely a correspondence between a representation and external phenomena, but is constantly in the process of becoming as the political actor \"experiments\" with different notions of truth and the actions which are derived from them. I use the notion of a narrative as opposed to scientific mode of thought in order to highlight the open-ended, constant becoming nature of Gandhi's understanding of truth in political action. I conclude by arguing that Gandhi's notion of truth widens the sphere of political action to a plurality of individual contributions and voices towards a truly nonviolent and engaged society.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "All rights reserved",
        "short_name": "Copyright",
        "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Gandhi"
        },
        {
            "word": "nonviolence"
        },
        {
            "word": "Satyagraha"
        },
        {
            "word": "Arendt"
        },
        {
            "word": "Bakhtin"
        },
        {
            "word": "narrative"
        },
        {
            "word": "Political Theory"
        },
        {
            "word": "Peace and Conflict Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Social Theory"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cultural Theory"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37d539hn",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Justine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Parkin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Berkeley",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2012-09-08T06:40:13+03:00",
    "date_accepted": "2012-09-08T06:40:13+03:00",
    "date_published": "2012-12-22T10:00:00+02:00",
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}