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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454681003321

Autore

Bleiker Roland

Titolo

Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics / / Roland Bleiker [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

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

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Cambridge studies in international relations ; ; 70

Disciplina

303.6/1

Soggetti

Government, Resistance to

Civil disobedience

Demonstrations

Dissenters

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.