ENGLISH

Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics

By Roland Bleiker

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521770998, 9780521770996, 0521778298, 9780521778299, 0511491247, 9780511491245
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511491245
LCC
JC328.3 .B53 2000
Google Books ID
Z7VgQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL7752884M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1130784 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in International Relations (70)
Pages
xiv, 294\309
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-09-28 01:12:10

Description

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.

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