{"title":"Power’s quiet reach and why it should exercise us","authors":"John Allen","doi":"10.1080/13562576.2020.1759412","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On a number of fronts, quieter registers of power – manipulation, dissimulation, inducement and displaced forms of authority – have assumed greater significance today, made possible by the topological reach into peoples’ everyday lives. This should exercise us, not least because you can miss these kinds of powerful practices as they do not always appear as such. When the ‘power to’ secure or influence outcomes may just as easily turn into the ‘power over’ others, we should at the very least be troubled, if not straightforwardly provoked.","PeriodicalId":46632,"journal":{"name":"SPACE AND POLITY","volume":"15 1","pages":"408 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SPACE AND POLITY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1759412","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT On a number of fronts, quieter registers of power – manipulation, dissimulation, inducement and displaced forms of authority – have assumed greater significance today, made possible by the topological reach into peoples’ everyday lives. This should exercise us, not least because you can miss these kinds of powerful practices as they do not always appear as such. When the ‘power to’ secure or influence outcomes may just as easily turn into the ‘power over’ others, we should at the very least be troubled, if not straightforwardly provoked.
期刊介绍:
Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.