Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics / Roland Bleiker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bleiker, Roland, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 70.

Cambridge studies in international relations ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to.

Civil disobedience.

Demonstrations.

Dissenters.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Popular Dissent, Human Agency & Global Politics

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-11915-4

0-511-01715-4

1-280-42118-5

0-511-17316-4

0-511-15216-7

0-511-31094-3

0-511-49124-7

0-511-04941-2

OCLC:

271539591