Rhetoric and the Workings of Power--the Social Contract in Crisis

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ID18995751
AutoresElisabeth Kirtsoglou (0000-0002-1414-8474, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume54
Fascículo1
Páginas1-14
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/sa.2010.540101
OpenAlexW2075497853
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas27

As social, cultural, and political subjects, we are all constituted in power. Power is not something external to the subject, but rather a context and an idiom of subjectivity. It is creative and generative, as Foucault (1977) would argue, and also relational insofar as it is manifested in relationships (Etzioni 1993; Kritzman 1988; Wolf 1999). It has long been argued that resistance itself, as Foucault ([1976] 1990: 95) put it, “is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (see also Abu-Lughod 1990; Mitchell 1990; Reed-Danahay 1993; Williams 2008). In a recent article on autonomy and the French alter-globalization movement, which also builds on Donald Moore’s (1998) argument, Williams (2008: 80–81) claims that “[r]esistance ... emerges not from an originary site but from oppositional practices, which ... are always relational and dynamic.”

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