Popular dissent, human agency and global politics
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Popular dissent, human agency and global politics
(Cambridge studies in international relations, 70)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 sources to scrutinise this central but often neglected aspect of global politics. Through case studies that span from Renaissance perceptions of human agency to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the author examines how the theory and practice of popular dissent has emerged and evolved during the modern period. Dissent, he argues, is more than just transnational. It has become an important 'transversal' phenomenon: an array of diverse political practices which not only cross national boundaries, but also challenge the spatial logic through which these boundaries frame international relations.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. A Genealogy of Popular Dissent: 1. Rhetorics of dissent in renaissance humanism
- 2. Romanticism and the dissemination of radical resistance
- 3. Global legacies of popular dissent
- Part II. Reading and Rereading Transversal Struggles: 4. From essentialist to discursive conceptions of power
- 5. Of 'Men', 'Women' and discursive domination
- 6. Of great events and what makes them great
- Part III. Discursive Terrains of Dissent: 7. Mapping everyday global resistance
- 8. Resistance at the edge of language games
- 9. Political boundaries, poetic transgressions
- Conclusion.
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