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Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics Roland Bleiker CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Popular dissent, such as street demonstrations and civil disobedi- ence,hasbecomeincreasinglytransnationalinnatureandscope.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 spanfromRenaissanceperceptionsofhumanagencytothecollapse oftheBerlinWall,theauthorexamineshowthetheoryandpractice of popular dissent has emerged and evolved during the modern period. Dissent, he argues, is more than just transnational. It has becomeanimportant‘transversal’phenomenon:anarrayofdiverse politicalpracticeswhichnotonlycrossnationalboundaries,butalso challenge the spatial logic through which these boundaries frame internationalrelations. RolandBleikerisSeniorLecturerandCoordinatorofthePeaceand Conflict Studies Program at the University of Queensland. He has also taught at the Australian National University, Pusan National University, and the University of Tampere. He is the author of a numberofarticlesinscholarlyjournals. This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGESTUDIESININTERNATIONALRELATIONS:70 POPULARDISSENT,HUMANAGENCYANDGLOBALPOLITICS EditorialBoard STEVESMITH(Managingeditor) THOMASBIERSTEKER CHRISBROWN ALEXDANCHEV ROSEMARYFOOT JOSEPHGRIECO G.JOHNIKENBERRY MARGOTLIGHT ANDREWLINKLATER MICHAELNICHOLSON CAROLINETHOMAS ROGERTOOZE CambridgeStudiesinInternationalRelationsisajointinitiativeof CambridgeUniversityPressandtheBritishInternationalStudies Association(BISA).Theserieswillincludeawiderangeof material,fromundergraduatetextbooksandsurveysto research-basedmonographsandcollaborativevolumes.Theaimof theseriesistopublishthebestnewscholarshipinInternational StudiesfromEurope,NorthAmericaandtherestoftheworld. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 70 RolandBleiker Populardissent,humanagencyandglobalpolitics 69 BillMcSweeney Security,identityandinterests Asociologyofinternationalrelations 68 MollyCochran Normativetheoryininternationalrelations Apragmaticapproach 67 AlexanderWendt Socialtheoryofinternationalpolitics 66 ThomasRisse,StephenC.RoppandKathrynSikkink(eds.) Thepowerofhumanrights Internationalnormsanddomesticchange 65 DanielW.Drezner Thesanctionsparadox Economicstatecraftandinternationalrelations 64 VivaOnaBartkus Thedynamicofsecession 63 JohnA.Vasquez Thepowerofpowerpolitics Fromclassicalrealismtoneotraditionalism 62 EmanuelAdlerandMichaelBarnett(eds.) Securitycommunities 61 CharlesJones E.H.Carrandinternationalrelations Adutytolie 60 JeffreyW.Knopf Domesticsocietyandinternationalcooperation TheimpactofprotestonUSarmscontrolpolicy 59 NicholasGreenwoodOnuf Therepublicanlegacyininternationalthought Serieslistcontinuesafterindex Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics Roland Bleiker PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia http://www.cambridge.org © Roland Bleiker 2000 This edition © Roland Bleiker 2003 First published in printed format 2000 A catalogue record for the original printed book is available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Original ISBN 0 521 77099 8 hardback Original ISBN 0 521 77829 8 paperback ISBN 0 511 01715 4 virtual (netLibrary Edition) MeinenElterninDankbarkeit This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements page xi Prologue:Theorisingtransversaldissent 1 Introduction:Writinghumanagencyafterthe deathofGod 23 PartI Agenealogyofpopulardissent 51 1 RhetoricsofdissentinRenaissanceHumanism 53 2 Romanticismandthedisseminationofradical resistance 74 3 Globallegaciesofpopulardissent 96 PartII Readingandrereadingtransversalstruggles 117 4 Fromessentialisttodiscursiveconceptionof power 120 Firstinterlude:Confrontingincommensurability 139 5 Of‘men’,‘women’anddiscursivedomination 146 6 Ofgreateventsandwhatmakesthemgreat 173 PartIII Discursiveterrainsofdissent 185 7 Mappingeverydayglobalresistance 187 Secondinterlude:Towardsadiscursiveunderstanding ofhumanagency 208 8 Resistanceattheedgeoflanguagegames 215 ix
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