Connecting articles and authors with each other: SANT105
Wolf, Eric R. “Facing Power – Old Insights and New Questions”
- Forms of Wolf’s types of power can be seen in Weber’s ideal types of authority, which
are all organizational/tactical.
Weber, Max. “The Types of Legitimate Domination [1914].”
- Weber’s ideal types of authority are all organizational/tactical forms of power (Wolf)
- Foucault: domination: Moreover, in speaking of domination Foucault does not have in
mind that the solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others,
but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society. Right should
be viewed not in terms of a legitimacy to be established but in terms of the methods of
subjugation that it instigates.
- Scott: everyday forms of resistance against domination. If there is open resistance, that
does not mean that the aims of the peasants have changed but the effectiveness of
domination has changed.
- Symbolic capital is an extension of Max Weber's analysis of status. Bourdieu
argues that symbolic capital gains value at the cross-section of class and status,
where one must not only possess but be able to appropriate objects with a
perceived or concrete sense of value.
Kivland, Chelsea. “The Magic of Guns.”
- Wolf; organizational/tactical power: the person with the gun has power over the rest in
the urban area.
- Weber: Kivland criticizes rational-legal authority. The use of magic in Kivland’s article
can be seen as traditional authority while the gun can be seen as more towards rational
authority, though not the same.
Gramsci, Antonio. “The State and Civil Society.”
- Trouillot = the state
- Foucault: Foucault believes that anything can be deduced from the general phenomenon
of domination of the bourgeois class. What needs to be done is something quite
different. One needs to investigate historically, and beginning from the lowest level, how
mechanisms of power have been able to function. We need to identify the agents
responsible for them, their real agents of repression and exclusion and not lump them
under bourgeois. It is only if we grasp these techniques of power and demonstrate the
economic advantage or political utility that derives from them in a given context for
specific reasons, that we can understand how these mechanisms come to be effectively
incorporated into a social whole.
- Quite similar argument: not just lump it under ‘bourgeois has power’, but trace the
mechanisms that created that power in the hands of the bourgeois.
- Scott: Both talk about the domination of the bourgeois or upper class
, - Bourdieu: comparison cultural hegemony and habitus/doxa
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close
Encounters by the Deceptive Kind.”
- Gramsci = the state
- Anderson: identification effect similar to imagined community: people recognizing
themselves as the same
Anderson, Benedict. “Introduction” (s. 1-7); “The Origin of National Consciousness”
- Bringa as example of how imagined communities are formed.
Bringa, Tone. “Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995.”
- Anderson, if there are no borders or there is conflict, what is a nation? -> Imagined
communities
We Are All Neighbours Film
- Bringa, her movie
- Anderson: what unites or divides a community
Foucault, Michel. “Disciplinary Power and Subjection.”
- Weber and domination.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power
through Bedouin Women.”
- Uses Foucault and criticizes it.
- Wolf: mention 4 types of resistance, which can be connected to 3 of the 4 powers that
Wolf mentions
- Scott: everyday resistance
Bourdieu, Pierre. “Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power.”
- Gramsci: comparison with cultural hegemony
- Scott: how habitus and doxa form the norms and how they structure society
Scott, James. “Everyday forms of resistance.”
- Bourdieu = Habitus?
- Foucault: Foucault believes that anything can be deduced from the general phenomenon
of domination of the bourgeois class. What needs to be done is something quite
different. One needs to investigate historically, and beginning from the lowest level, how
mechanisms of power have been able to function. We need to identify the agents
responsible for them, their real agents of repression and exclusion and not lump them
under bourgeois
- Gramsci: Both talk about the domination of the bourgeois or upper class
- Foucault: power circulates
Wolf, Eric R. “Facing Power – Old Insights and New Questions”
- Forms of Wolf’s types of power can be seen in Weber’s ideal types of authority, which
are all organizational/tactical.
Weber, Max. “The Types of Legitimate Domination [1914].”
- Weber’s ideal types of authority are all organizational/tactical forms of power (Wolf)
- Foucault: domination: Moreover, in speaking of domination Foucault does not have in
mind that the solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others,
but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society. Right should
be viewed not in terms of a legitimacy to be established but in terms of the methods of
subjugation that it instigates.
- Scott: everyday forms of resistance against domination. If there is open resistance, that
does not mean that the aims of the peasants have changed but the effectiveness of
domination has changed.
- Symbolic capital is an extension of Max Weber's analysis of status. Bourdieu
argues that symbolic capital gains value at the cross-section of class and status,
where one must not only possess but be able to appropriate objects with a
perceived or concrete sense of value.
Kivland, Chelsea. “The Magic of Guns.”
- Wolf; organizational/tactical power: the person with the gun has power over the rest in
the urban area.
- Weber: Kivland criticizes rational-legal authority. The use of magic in Kivland’s article
can be seen as traditional authority while the gun can be seen as more towards rational
authority, though not the same.
Gramsci, Antonio. “The State and Civil Society.”
- Trouillot = the state
- Foucault: Foucault believes that anything can be deduced from the general phenomenon
of domination of the bourgeois class. What needs to be done is something quite
different. One needs to investigate historically, and beginning from the lowest level, how
mechanisms of power have been able to function. We need to identify the agents
responsible for them, their real agents of repression and exclusion and not lump them
under bourgeois. It is only if we grasp these techniques of power and demonstrate the
economic advantage or political utility that derives from them in a given context for
specific reasons, that we can understand how these mechanisms come to be effectively
incorporated into a social whole.
- Quite similar argument: not just lump it under ‘bourgeois has power’, but trace the
mechanisms that created that power in the hands of the bourgeois.
- Scott: Both talk about the domination of the bourgeois or upper class
, - Bourdieu: comparison cultural hegemony and habitus/doxa
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close
Encounters by the Deceptive Kind.”
- Gramsci = the state
- Anderson: identification effect similar to imagined community: people recognizing
themselves as the same
Anderson, Benedict. “Introduction” (s. 1-7); “The Origin of National Consciousness”
- Bringa as example of how imagined communities are formed.
Bringa, Tone. “Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992-1995.”
- Anderson, if there are no borders or there is conflict, what is a nation? -> Imagined
communities
We Are All Neighbours Film
- Bringa, her movie
- Anderson: what unites or divides a community
Foucault, Michel. “Disciplinary Power and Subjection.”
- Weber and domination.
Abu-Lughod, Lila. “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power
through Bedouin Women.”
- Uses Foucault and criticizes it.
- Wolf: mention 4 types of resistance, which can be connected to 3 of the 4 powers that
Wolf mentions
- Scott: everyday resistance
Bourdieu, Pierre. “Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power.”
- Gramsci: comparison with cultural hegemony
- Scott: how habitus and doxa form the norms and how they structure society
Scott, James. “Everyday forms of resistance.”
- Bourdieu = Habitus?
- Foucault: Foucault believes that anything can be deduced from the general phenomenon
of domination of the bourgeois class. What needs to be done is something quite
different. One needs to investigate historically, and beginning from the lowest level, how
mechanisms of power have been able to function. We need to identify the agents
responsible for them, their real agents of repression and exclusion and not lump them
under bourgeois
- Gramsci: Both talk about the domination of the bourgeois or upper class
- Foucault: power circulates
