Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bleiker, Roland
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 70.
Subjects:
Government, Resistance to.
Civil disobedience.
Demonstrations.
Dissenters.
International relations.
Civil Disorders
Gouvernement, Résistance au.
Désobéissance civile.
Manifestations.
Dissidents.
Relations internationales.
Résistance au gouvernement.
dissenters.
international relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Civil disobedience
Demonstrations
Dissenters
Government, Resistance to
International relations
Widerstand
Moderne
Dissidenten.
Internationale politiek.
Relações internacionais.
Desobediência civil.
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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.

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