Title: Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics /
Authors: Bleiker, Roland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Government, Resistance to.; Civil disobedience.; Demonstrations.; Dissenters.; International relations
Abstract: This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics. The author draws upon several case studies, including the collapse of the Berlin Wall, to show how people influence the course of politics at a time when boundaries between domestic and international spheres are blurring.
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.