Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics /

Popular dissent, such as street demonstrations and civil disobedience, has become increasingly transnational in nature and scope. As a result, a local act of resistance can acquire almost immediately a much larger, cross-territorial dimension. This book draws upon a broad and innovative range of sou...

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Main Author: Bleiker, Roland
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0511017154
9780511017155
0511152167
9780511152160
9780521770996
0521770998
9780511491245
0511491247
0511049412
9780511049415
0511034172
9780511034176
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. A genealogy of popular dissent
  • Rhetorics of dissent in Renaissance Humanism
  • Romanticism and the dissemination of radical resistance
  • Global legacies of popular dissent
  • P.2. Reading and rereading transversal struggles
  • From essentialist to discursive conception of power
  • First interlude: Confronting incommensurability
  • Of 'men', 'women' and discursive domination
  • Of great events and what makes them great
  • pt. 3. Discursive terrains of dissent
  • Mapping everyday global resistance Second interlude: Towards a discursive understanding of human agency
  • Resistance at the edge of language games
  • Political boundaries, poetic transgressions
  • Conclusion: The transitional contingencies of transversal politics.