Popular dissent, human agency, and global politics / Roland Bleiker
| Author(s): | Bleiker, Roland |
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| Subjects: | Government, Resistance to Civil disobedience Demonstrations Dissenters International relations |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in international relations 70 |
| LC Classification: | J, JC |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgements Prologue: Theorising transversal dissent 1 Introduction: Writing human agency after the death of God 23 Pt. I. A genealogy of popular dissent 51 1. Rhetorics of dissent in Renaissance Humanism 53 2. Romanticism and the dissemination of radical resistance 74 3. Global legacies of popular dissent 96 Pt. II. Reading and rereading transversal struggles 117 4. From essentialist to discursive conception of power 120 First interlude: Confronting incommensurability 139 5. Of 'men', 'women' and discursive domination 146 6. Of great events and what makes them great 173 Pt. III. Discursive terrains of dissent 185 7. Mapping everyday global resistance 187 Second interlude: Towards a discursive understanding of human agency 208 8. Resistance at the edge of language games 215 9. Political boundaries, poetic transgressions 244 Conclusion: The transitional contingencies of transversal politics 273 Index 283 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 99026115 ISBN: 0521770998 ISBN: 0521778298 (pbk.) Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 289 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 41118816 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0521770998 0521778298 |