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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| ISBN: | 0511017154 9780511017155 0511152167 9780511152160 9780521770996 0521770998 9780511491245 0511491247 0511049412 9780511049415 0511034172 9780511034176 |
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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.