De-facing power /
"Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, institutions - which define both the field o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000
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| Series: | Contemporary political theory.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, institutions - which define both the field of action and the individual's freedom within it, for the "powerful" and "powerless" alike. Hayward suggests that the critical analysis of power relations should focus on the ways in which these relationships affect people's capacities to help shape the institutions and practices that govern their lives. Using a detailed comparative analysis of the relationships within two ethnically diverse educational settings - one in a low-income, predominantly African-American, urban school, the other in an affluent, predominantly white, suburban school - this book develops a compelling account of the concept of power in terms of networks of practices and relations."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511016948 9780511016943 9780521780797 0521780799 9780511490255 0511490259 9780511050169 051105016X 0511153708 9780511153709 1107120209 9781107120204 1280429712 9781280429712 0511174128 9780511174124 0511303521 9780511303524 9786610429714 6610429715 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
