Sentence examples for accounts of power from inspiring English sources

The sex could hardly be more different from her own accounts of power and dominance.

Foucault (1978, 82) rejected traditional accounts of power as solely dominating and instead proposed an analytics of power equally attuned to its productive qualities.

Foucault viewed grandiose accounts of power – accounts influenced by the metaphor of a clearly defined battlefield of opponents – as inappropriate, proposing instead to explore struggle in all its terrestrial and contradictory detail.

Sullivan (1996) also criticizes queer theorists for relying upon Foucault's account of power, which he argues does not allow for meaningful resistance.

However, others have argued power-over and power-to refer to fundamentally different meanings of the word "power" and that it is a mistake to try to develop an account of power that integrates these two concepts (Pitkin 1972, Wartenberg 1990).

As we will see in a moment, Foucault's account of subjection and his account of power more generally have been extremely fruitful, but also quite controversial, for feminists interested in analyzing domination.

According to the traditional Marxist account of power, domination is understood on the model of class exploitation; domination results from the capitalist appropriation of the surplus value that is produced by the workers.

More general debates about the philosophical adequacy of a politics of recognition continue: for example, in her 2008 book Against Recognition, Lois McNay argues that identity claims that are at the heart of many contemporary social movements are represented as demands for recognition in the context of an over-simplified account of power.

14 15 Differential effects by animal or plant origin of the diet were not examined in the earlier European studies, but in our study we were not able to document any effects, possibly on account of power limitations.

It may be maintained, but it is going to need a lot of additional calculations to take account of powers already being handed over through the tax powers in the Scotland Act 2012.

Neo-Foucaultian accounts of the power and prowess of text examine how these formations manage and discipline populations in sanctioning the claims and practices of people and institutions.