Richard B. Gregg, The Power of Nonviolence (New York: Schocken Books, 1966); Krishnalal Shridharani, War without Violence: A Study of Gandhi’s Method and its Accomplishments (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939).
M. K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or the Story of my Experiments with Truth (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1927).
According to a constructivist perspective, “truth” is always based on human interests rather than objective reality, and hence is more problematical than Gandhi believed. But for this outline of his ideas, “truth” is used without quotes.
See V. V. Ramana Murti, “Buber’s dialogue and Gandhi’s satyagraha,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 29, No. 4, 1968, pp. 605-613. I thank Tom Weber for pointing out this reference.
Robert A. Bode, “Gandhi’s theory of nonviolent communication,” Gandhi Marg, Vol. 16, No. 1, April-June 1994, pp. 5-30.
Note that feminists have criticised the Gandhian emphasis on suffering by nonviolent activists.
Thomas Weber, “’The marchers simply walked forward until struck down’: nonviolent suffering and conversion,” Peace & Change, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1993, pp. 267-289.
Johan Galtung, Nonviolence and Israel/Palestine (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Institute for Peace, 1989).
Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1. Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984); Jurgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2. Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason (Boston: Beacon Press, 1987).
James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990).
In the appendix, this terminology is explained in the context of theories of technology.
On energy vulnerability see Wilson Clark and Jake Page, Energy, Vulnerability, and War: Alternatives for America. New York: Norton, 1981; Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security. Boston: Brick House, 1982; James L. Plummer, ed., Energy Vulnerability. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1982.
See Colin Kearton and Brian Martin, “Technological vulnerability: a neglected area in policy-making”,