Showing papers in "Journal of political power in 2018"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that everyday resistance is only one of many types of small-scale or individual resistance, and that hidden, subtle resistance is one of the most common forms of resistance.
Abstract: Revisiting James C. Scott’s classification of forms of resistance, this paper argues that (hidden, subtle) everyday resistance is only one of many types of small-scale or individual resistance prac...
53 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four types of authority, i.e., authority denotes an actor's appeals or other references to objects or facts that she expects others to respect or fear.
Abstract: The article proposes that authority denotes an actor’s appeals or other references to objects or facts that she expects others to respect or fear. The paper identifies four types of authority: capa...
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the politics of time and temporality within Michel Foucault's theorisation of resistance is discussed, and the outline of resistance as discursive resistance is reversed.
Abstract: This paper revolves around the politics of time and temporality within Michel Foucault’s theorisation of resistance. In focus is Foucault’s outline of resistance as discursive resistance, reversed ...
22 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a dialogue with Forst on the role of justification in power relations, which is theory building in its own right, is presented, starting from Forst's argument that power is a cognitive...
Abstract: This article is a dialogue with Forst on the role of justification in power relations, which is theory building in its own right. The article starts with Forst’s argument that power is a cognitive ...
22 citations
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TL;DR: Forst's account of structural power, as elaborated in Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification as discussed by the authors, is the central claim that structural power works,...
Abstract: This article engages Rainer Forst’s account of structural power, as elaborated in Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification. Its central claim is that structural power works, ...
18 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the nature of intellectual critique and social criticism Rainer Forst's critical theory of justification enables, and introduce a taxonomy of three forms of power.
Abstract: This article investigates the nature of intellectual critique and social criticism Rainer Forst’s critical theory of justification enables. I introduce a taxonomy of three forms of power – namely, ...
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors build a research programme reaching beyond the contemporary fragmentation of social sciences toward a holistic approach considering society as one whole and capable of bridging the gap between communities.
Abstract: The paper builds a research programme reaching beyond the contemporary fragmentation of social sciences toward a holistic approach considering society as one whole and capable of bridging the gap b...
13 citations
TL;DR: Can we develop a definition of power that is satisfactorily determinate but also enables rather than foreclose important substantive scientific and normative debates about social and political life as mentioned in this paper ].
Abstract: Can we develop a definition of power that is satisfactorily determinate but also enables rather than foreclose important substantive scientific and normative debates about social and political life...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, Rainer Forst explains and expands upon his reply to critiques by Albena Azmanova, Pablo Gilabert, Mark Haugaard, Clarissa Rile Hayward, Matthias Kettner, Steven Lukes, and Simon Susen.
Abstract: In this reply to critiques by Albena Azmanova, Pablo Gilabert, Mark Haugaard, Clarissa Rile Hayward, Matthias Kettner, Steven Lukes, and Simon Susen, Rainer Forst explains and expands upon his theo...
10 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the real and general phenomenon of power as the capacity to secure the compliance of others, and include what is relevantly similar and exclude wha...
Abstract: Does ‘noumenal power’ adequately represent ‘the real and general phenomenon of power,’ as the capacity to secure the compliance of others? Does it include what is relevantly similar and exclude wha...
9 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that to grasp the reason why so many young people choose not to vote in local elections, we must supplement the many quantitative studies by asking the youth themselves, and this st...
Abstract: This article argues that to grasp the reason why so many young people choose not to vote in local elections, we must supplement the many quantitative studies by asking the youth themselves. This st...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how magic power is implicated in current and past thought about sovereignty and domination, and how it can be used as a political resource and metaphor for political power.
Abstract: This paper considers how magic power – as a political resource, and as a metaphor for political power – is implicated in current and past thought about sovereignty and domination. Shakespeare’s tre...
TL;DR: The first wave of insurgency studies was undoubtedly influenced by the national liberation struggles taking place in Indochina, Africa and elsewhere from the 1950 and into the 1970s as mentioned in this paper, and the past fifte...
Abstract: The first wave of insurgency studies was undoubtedly influenced by the national liberation struggles taking place in Indochina, Africa and elsewhere from the 1950 and into the 1970s. The past fifte...
TL;DR: The authors argue that Forst's equating all power with "noumenal" (i.e. reasons-mediat... ) is not consistent with our own discourse theoretical approach to power and reason.
Abstract: Focusing on differences in Rainer Forst's and my otherwise similar discourse theoretical approaches to power and reason, I argue that Forst's equating all power with “noumenal” (i.e. reasons-mediat...
TL;DR: In the past, institutions have been mainly understood in a dualistic way: as abstract, macro cultural logics, or as inhabited socio-cultural sites as mentioned in this paper, and this form of dualism divided people into cognitive cultural do...
Abstract: Institutions have been mainly understood in a dualistic way: as abstract, macro cultural logics, or as inhabited socio-cultural sites. This form of dualism divided people into cognitive cultural do...
TL;DR: This article shows that smart power covers a conceptual understanding with more depth than meets the eye, relying on elements of classical realism and in particular ideas of prudent statesmanship.
Abstract: The concept of smart power has gained wide currency. It may be argued, however, that the term is more persuasive than informative, a problem shared with the associated concepts of soft and hard pow...
TL;DR: The Foucauldian conception of power as productive has left us so far with a residual conception of freedom as mentioned in this paper, and the relationship between power and freedom has been examined in a number of historical cases in which "relationships of freedom" h...
Abstract: The Foucauldian conception of power as ‘productive’ has left us so far with a residual conception of freedom. The article examines a number of historical cases in which ‘relationships of freedom’ h...
TL;DR: Several decentralisation studies were conducted in the context of one political party controlling both the central and local state, where it is assumed that there is a concordance of vision between the parties.
Abstract: Several decentralisation studies were conducted in the context of one political party controlling both the central and local state, where it is assumed that there is a concordance of vision between...
TL;DR: Based on narratives from civil societal actors that have been involved in some way in the conflict over Khao Phra Wihan, the authors concerns the construction of the Thai nation, and how that is resourced.
Abstract: Based on narratives from civil societal actors that have been involved in some way in the conflict over Khao Phra Wihan, this paper concerns the construction of the Thai nation, and how that is res...
TL;DR: Benton's definition of the "principle of utility" in the Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation, reads as follows: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two s...
Abstract: Jeremy Bentham’s definition of the ‘principle of utility,’ in the Introduction to the principles of morals and legislation, reads as follows: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two s...
TL;DR: In the 1960s and 1970s, alienation was, in the parlance of Nisbet (1966), one of the core units of sociological study as discussed by the authors, and a quick trawl through the literature of the time easily identifies a burgeo...
Abstract: During the 1960s and 1970s alienation was, in the parlance of Nisbet (1966), one of the core units of sociological study. A quick trawl through the literature of the time easily identifies a burgeo...
TL;DR: The First Treatise of John Locke's Two Treatises of government as discussed by the authors was the first treatise of government to be read by a political philosopher, and the critical target of Filmer's Patriarcha.
Abstract: Few political philosophers read the First Treatise of John Locke’s Two treatises of government; fewer still read the critical target of that Treatise, Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha. Locke’s status...
TL;DR: In the wider power debates, many theorists have observed that power is linked to reason: as ideology in three-dimensional power (Lukes 1974), as power/knowledge through the use of truth (Foucault 1... as discussed by the authors ).
Abstract: In the wider power debates, many theorists have observed that power is linked to reason: as ideology in three-dimensional power (Lukes 1974), as power/knowledge through the use of truth (Foucault 1...
TL;DR: Chua and Mason's political tribes and Lilliana Mason's Uncivil agreement represent, each in their own way, the tip of the spear in what we might call "tribal psychologism" as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Amy Chua’s Political tribes and Lilliana Mason’s Uncivil agreement represent, each in their own way, the tip of the spear in what we might call ‘tribal psychologism.’ The attack is an important one...