Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics.
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.
'Bleiker's book is a beautiful disruption of IR's contemporary theoretical doldrums. It is ambitious - both in structure and purpose - yet aware of its limits, and the impossibility (indeed undesirability) of final resolution for many of the issues it raises.' Millennium
ISBN: 9780521778299
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
Weight: 460g
312 pages