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Blencowe, Claire, 1981- and Brigstocke, Julian and Dawney, Leila, eds. (2015) Authority, experience and the life of power. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781138809369

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Abstract

Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of ‘authority’. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that ‘experience of life’ has become equated with ‘objectivity’ in contemporary culture and has thus become a primary basis of authority. ‘Biopolitical’ or ‘experiential’ authority can be generated through reference to a variety of experiences, performances or intensities of life including creativity, radicalism, risk-taking, experimentation, inter-relation, suffering and proximity to death. The authority-producing capacities of community and aesthetics are key issues, pointing to vexed relationships between politics and policing, inventiveness and violence.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: Abingdon, Oxon
ISBN: 9781138809369
Editor: Blencowe, Claire, 1981- and Brigstocke, Julian and Dawney, Leila
Official Date: 2015
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Number of Pages: 150
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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