Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics

Klappentext This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Roland Bleiker, Roland (University of Queensland) Bleiker
• Assisted by: Thomas J. Biersteker (Editor), Steve Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2000
• EAN: 9780521778299
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77829-9
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education