Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: Theorising transversal dissent
- Introduction: Writing human agency after the death of God
- Part I A genealogy of popular dissent
- Part II Reading and rereading transversal struggles
- 4 From essentialist to discursive conception of power
- First interlude: Confronting incommensurability
- 5 Of ‘men’, ‘women’ and discursive domination
- 6 Of great events and what makes them great
- Part III Discursive terrains of dissent
- Conclusion: The transitional contingencies of transversal politics
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
4 - From essentialist to discursive conception of power
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: Theorising transversal dissent
- Introduction: Writing human agency after the death of God
- Part I A genealogy of popular dissent
- Part II Reading and rereading transversal struggles
- 4 From essentialist to discursive conception of power
- First interlude: Confronting incommensurability
- 5 Of ‘men’, ‘women’ and discursive domination
- 6 Of great events and what makes them great
- Part III Discursive terrains of dissent
- Conclusion: The transitional contingencies of transversal politics
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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- Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics , pp. 120 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000