Popular dissent, human agency, and 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 sou...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international relations ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511017154 9780511017155 0511152167 9780511152160 9780521770996 0521770998 9780511491245 0511491247 0511049412 9780511049415 0511034172 9780511034176 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
