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Jan 1, 1990 · The discourse of developmentalism deconstructs the discourse of development and power. Welfare and modernizing development is a 'dream' implemented by power (Foucault, 1972; Miller, 1990) .
- Seumas Miller
Apr 27, 2015 · Power is often defined as a person's ability to influence the behaviors of other people, whereas discourse generally refers to the use of language as a form of social action. The relation between ...
Discourse, power and access 85 5 Power is based on privileged access to valued social resources, such as wealth, jobs, status, or indeed, a preferential access to public discourse and communication. 6 Social power and dominance are often organised and institutionalised, so as to allow more effective control, and to enable routine forms of power reproduction. 7 Dominance is seldom absolute; it is often gradual, and may be met by more or less resistance or counter-power by dominated groups.
- Teun A van Dijk
- 5.1 Foucault and the nature of power
- A. Levin, The Cost of Free Speech Abigail Levin 2010
- 5.3 Power, the state, and the law
- 5.4 The silencing and subordination arguments, revisited
- 5.5 Conclusion
Michel Foucault’s insights into the nature and mechanisms of power have been among the most persuasive and influential of the last century, though his account has been almost universally overlooked in debates about liberalism. Foucault’s exclusion from the discourse may be owed partly to the fact of his own hostility toward liberalism, and partly t...
contention that the body of jurisprudence itself, combined with the acad-emic body of work surrounding it, is a discourse in the Foucauldian sense, and as such an important site of power. Even further, the discourse surrounding freedom of expression in particular operates at a meta-level, on a Foucauldian reading, since it governs the scope and lim...
As I have noted, the idea of power as delocalized, and running through-out the entire social body, is contrary to commonsense understandings of the notion of power, which would locate it paradigmatically in the state. Foucault, famously, resists this idea (1984a: 63): ‘What we need...is a political philosophy that isn’t erected around the problem o...
Having examined Foucault’s notion of power as diffuse and operative through discourse, it is time to bring these insights to bear on the silencing and subordination arguments, as well as on the charges of culturally oppressive speech that the arguments have brought to light. Analysis of Foucault’s ouvre has at least these important implications for...
This chapter has aimed to make three points about Foucault that demon-strate how his theory about the nature of power is relevant to the dis-cussion of whether and how the liberal state should actively work to end cultural oppression in order to treat its citizens with equal concern and respect. First, Foucault’s notion of power as operative throug...
- Abigail Levin
- 2010
xt and Talk (2008).Besides the empirical studies on racism, this book at the same time develops and applies new theory on the relations between discourse, cognition and society.The relations between power and discourse can only be fully understood when they are being articulated in such a broader multidis.
Discourse transmits and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines and exposes it, renders it fragile and makes it possible to thwart (Foucault, 1998: p. 100). It is worth commenting on the aspect of language. Corson (1995) conceives language as an instrument of power and a useful tool for deconstructing power discourse.
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Jul 3, 2023 · And since disciplinary power does not eliminate individual autonomy, Foucault’s theory in general does not entail that the individual is determined by discourse: “For Foucault, resistance is inseparable from power – where there is power, there is resistance” (Kelly, 1994, p. 382). However, it is unclear how and where this resistance/counterforce can arise, while the individual always will be embedded in discourse.
