The four dimensions of power : understanding domination, empowerment and democracy / Mark Haugaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haugaard, Mark, 1961- author.

Series:

Social and political power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Power (Social sciences)--Political aspects.

Power (Social sciences)--Psychological aspects.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

235 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy

4 dimensions of power

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Mark Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, Haugaard offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions. The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy. Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, while offering an indispensable guide for activists wishing to understand domination, resistance and empowerment. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The first dimension of power: Violence, coercion and authority

2. The second dimension of power: Conflict over structures or deep conflict, and dominant ideology

3. The first and second dimensions of power contrasted: Deep versus shallow conflict and resistance

4. The third dimension of power: Practical consciousness knowledge, consciousness-raising, the natural attitude and the social construction of reasonable/unreasonable

5. The third dimension continued: Conventions, reification, the sacred and essentialism

6. The third dimension continued: Descartes' error, reification of truth and fallible truth

7. The fourth dimension of power: The making of the social subject

8. The fourth dimension continued: Social death through slavery, death-camps and solitary confinement

9. Normative analysis of the four dimensions of power: A pragmatist approach: what is power for?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526110374

1526110377

OCLC:

1130764330