Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics

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.