Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics

This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics.

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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.