How to Do Things With Words

‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Erik Eriksen is a remarkable individual. He has no college degrees yet is Professor of Human Development at Harvard University. He came to psychology via art, which explains why the reader will find him painting contexts and backgrounds rather than stating dull facts and concepts. He has been a training psychoanalyst for many years as well as a perceptive observer of cultural and social settings and their effect on growing up. This is not just a book on childhood. It is a panorama of our society. Anxiety in young children, apathy in American Indians, confusion in veterans of war, and arrogance in young Nazis are scrutinized under the psychoanalytic magnifying glass. The material is well written and devoid of technical jargon. The theme of the volume is that it is human to have a long childhood which will leave a lifelong residue of emotional immaturity in man. Primitive groups and

Childhood and Society.

Introduction 1. Dahl 2. Bachrach and Baratz 3. Lukes 4. Poulantzas 5. Parsons 6. Barnes 7. Arendt 8. Giddens 9. Mann 10. Foucault 11. Davis 12. Bourdieu 13. Clegg 14. Morriss 15. Haugaard

Power: A reader

In the literature, there have been two essentially contrasting views of power: one of power as domination, largely characterized as power over, and the other of power as empowerment, frequently theorized as power to. To date, the four (Lukes and Foucault) dimensions of power have been considered forms of domination. In this article it is argued that the processes of four-dimensional power also constitute the process of normatively desirable power, as emancipation. Key is the realization that structured power over has the potential to be positive-sum, rather than zero-sum; furthermore, that the exclusions of two-dimensional power also constitute the conditions of possibility for justice. The fact that normatively desirable power and domination are constituted through the same processes is not chance: the effectiveness of power as domination is parasitic upon power as emancipation.

Rethinking the four dimensions of power: domination and empowerment

In this article it is argued that social power can be created based upon either the reproduction of social order or coercively but that in complex societies the former is the more important. Building upon the ideas of a number of authors ‐ including Arendt, Parsons, Barnes, Bachrach and Baratz, Lukes, Giddens, Foucault and Clegg ‐ a typology of seven forms of power creation is developed in a manner which allows for diverse phenomena from previously divergent perspectives to be woven together into a theoretical whole which renders them commensurable. At the foundational level, social order presupposes the recreation of shared meanings which enable actors to act in collaboration in a way which they could not otherwise do. This observation is used as the basic premise from which to re-examine the reproduction of social order and the relationship between power, structure and knowledge. Among other things, this allows the author to render Lukes’ ‘false consciousness’ argument commensurable with Foucault’s power/knowledge hypothesis.

Reflections on Seven Ways of Creating Power

'Power to' versus 'Power over' in Consensual, Functionalist and Conflict Theory PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD 'Power to' and 'Power over' - Gerhard Gohler Rational-Choice Perspectives - Keith Dowding Liberal Theories - Peter Morriss Democratic Theories - Charles Tilly Power and Structuration Theory - Rob Stones Power and Discourse: Towards an Anti-Foundationalist Concept of Power - Jacob Torfing Actor-Network Theory - Rolland Munro Power, Efficacy and Resources: Perspectives from Anthropology - Richard Jenkins Powerful Geographies: Spatial Shifts in the Architecture of Globalization - John Allen PART TWO: POWER AND RELATED ANALYTIC CONCEPTS Three Conceptions of the Relationship between Power and Liberty - Mitchell Dean Power and Identity - Nigel Rapport Culture and Power - Fredrik Engelstad Hegemony and Power - Mark Haugaard Legitimacy and Power - Raymond Daniel Gordon Collective Violence and Power - Sinisa Malesevi? PART THREE: POWER AND SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES Gender and Power - Amy Allen Managing Power in Organizations: The Hidden History of Its Constitution - Stewart Clegg Cultures of Resistance in the Workplace - David Courpasson and Francoise Dany Power and Exclusion - Kevin Ryan State and Power - Robert Jessop International Relations and Power - Phillip G Cerny PART FOUR: CONCLUSION Conversations in Conclusion - Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard

The SAGE Handbook of Power

Through an email conversation between Allen, Forst and Haugaard, this article explores the relationship between the dyads power and reason, justice and domination. In much of the literature reason is considered either a mode of emancipation from power (Lukes) or, conversely, a subtle ruse of domination (Foucault). Here it is argued that reasoning is intrinsic to political power, with both the potential for power as justice (Arendt), and for power as domination (Foucault and Lukes). With power and reason as normatively neutral, with both/either normatively desirable and undesirable potentials, this raises the fundamental question of how to distinguish between justice and domination. These issues are explored, taking account of processes of subject formation and systems of thought.

Mark Haugaard

Papers

Power: A reader

Rethinking the four dimensions of power: domination and empowerment

Reflections on Seven Ways of Creating Power

The SAGE Handbook of Power

Power and reason, justice and domination: a conversation