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The power of safe resistance
Peter Bloom
Journal of Political Power, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 219 - 239
Swansea University Author: Peter Bloom
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/2158379X.2013.805919
Abstract
This paper seeks to critically reimagine the relationship between power and resistance. It aims to better understand how resistance aids in the construction, exercise and often reproduction of power. In doing so it opens up the space for a new perspective of power linked to the production of the res...
| Published in: | Journal of Political Power |
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| ISSN: | 2158-379X 2158-3803 |
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2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14578 |
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This paper seeks to critically reimagine the relationship between power and resistance. It aims to better understand how resistance aids in the construction, exercise and often reproduction of power. In doing so it opens up the space for a new perspective of power linked to the production of the resistance subject. Specifically it is argued that hegemonic power relations create in their wake dominant forms of resistance which ironically provide individuals with a stable social identity. Power operates, in turn, by creating a ‘safe’ resistance that preserves the ontological security individual’s gain as resistance subjects within these dominant power relations. Yet while all resistances are to an extent ‘safe’, this does not mean they are necessarily ‘safe’ to an existing hegemony. |
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Forthcoming |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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2 |
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219 |
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239 |