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The idea, in its non-overstated and non-exaggerated form, is simply this: that __if power is to be effective, those subject to it ... must be rendered susceptible to its effects.__ Repression is ‘negative’, presumably, in saying ‘no’: it prohibits and constrains, setting limits to what agents do and might desire. ‘Production’ is ‘positive’: power in this sense ‘traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse’ (Foucault 1980a: 119).
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
When a professor encourages students to adopt gender- neutral language or signs an open letter to university administration, she stands in the right sort of relationship to be addressing these others in virtue ofher role. Yet at the same time, she also pushes its boundaries by attempting to achieve something outside of it: by influencing the way that others carry out their roles (as students, deans, etc.). In effect, she alters the expectations issuing from the role-segments of which she is a party, thereby opening up new options by reweighting the stakes.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
Where “welfare” institutions were developed in the colonial world (as in South Africa and a few other places in Africa), they were chiefly for whites and a few privileged others. In colonial settings in which huge proportions of the population were both impoverished and outside the wage economy, “informal” social security such as “the African extended family” was the only solution that could be imagined.
Give a Man a Fish
James Ferguson
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