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This volume brings together new and innovative work on questions of violence--and in particular on the moral and political questions surrounding torture and terrorism. Each essay contributes to our understanding of the limits and scope of violence, and how we might appropriately respond to it, in the context of concrete concerns. Questions include: is torture ever justified? How are we to understand terrorism? Should we believe the claim that torture is sometimes necessary? Is conscientious o...

Terrorism and globalization. --- Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Violence -- Philosophy. --- Terrorism --- Violence --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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"Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays that explores the dynamics of sociological violence from within. Written by anthropologists who have been in the midst of violent conflict, these essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate; and the often surprising creative strategies people use to survive the traumatic and the unpredictable."--Book cover.

Ethnology --- Violence --- Ethnologists --- Anthropological ethics. --- Anthropological ethics --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropologists --- Professional ethics --- Ethnographers --- Violence research --- Fieldwork. --- Research. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Crimes against. --- Fieldwork --- Research --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Crimes against --- Moral and religious aspects --- Ethnology - Fieldwork --- Violence - Research --- Violence - Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethnologists - Crimes against

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Gandhi and Nehru helped create a myth of nonviolence in ancient India that obscures a troubled, complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice, 600 BCE to 600 CE.

Nonviolence --- Political violence --- Violence in popular culture --- Violence --- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Popular culture --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Political aspects --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- India --- History --- Politics and government --- Political violence - India - History --- Violence - Moral and ethical aspects - India --- Nonviolence - Political aspects - India - History --- Violence in popular culture - India - History --- India - History - To 324 B.C. --- India - History - 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. --- India - Politics and government - To 997