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Authority, Experience and the Life of Power
Claire Blencowe • Julian Brigstocke • Leila Dawney
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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. The contributors develop their theoretical analyses through discussion of a range of specific sites including mental-health service user and survivor politics, biological knowledge, refugee activism, stories of suffering, urban art, anarchism, neo-liberal community politics and marketization. Authority, Experience & the Life of Power challenges thinking on what the political is and isnt, pushing against the all too easy equivocation of revolutionary break and empowerment. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Power.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781138379466
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 150
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-10
- Förlag: Routledge