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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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Official URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/878024188
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 | ||||
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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 |
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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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