 | Adrienne S. Chambon - 1999 - 332 pages
..."Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere. . . . Power is not an institution, and not a structure;...to a complex strategical situation in a particular society" (1990:93). "Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared. . . . Power is exercised... | |
 | Francine Leigh Dolins - 1999 - 276 pages
...Sexuality (1978) Foucault finds beneath our rationality the 'omnipresence of power'. It is, he says, 'not an institution, and not a structure; neither...to a complex strategical situation in a particular society' (p. 93). We should be able to ask what deeper objectives are served by the kind of knowledge... | |
 | Linda Briskin, Mona Eliasson - 1999 - 412 pages
...everything, but because it comes from everywhere ... [P]ower is not an institution, and not a structure ... it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society ... Power is not something that is acquired, seized or shared ... power is exercised from innumerable... | |
 | Valerie J. Korinek - 2000 - 486 pages
...informs the way that the analysis of Chatelaine has been framed in these pages. According to Foucault, 'power is not an institution, and not a structure;...certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.'44 It is 'a productive network... | |
 | Gustavo Fischman - 2000 - 240 pages
...concept because "power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strategic strength we are endowed with; it is the name that...to a complex strategical situation in a particular society" (Foucault, 1990: 93). Therefore, power should not be treated as a commodity that can either... | |
 | Mary M. Lay - 2000 - 332 pages
...everything, but because it comes from everywhere. . . . Power is not an institution, and not a structure ... it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society" (1990:93). But in the case of direct-entry midwives, the medical communities upon which state... | |
 | Sandra M. Gustafson - 2000 - 320 pages
...and unstable social relations. Michel Foucault articulates this meaning of power, identifying it as "the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society" where power "is exercised from innumerable points, in the interplay of nonegalitarian and... | |
 | Thomas Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, Robert Latham - 2001 - 340 pages
...absolute authority since the omnipresence of power 15 not its totalizing capacity or unqualified unity: "power is not an institution, and not a structure;...to a complex strategical situation in a particular society" (p. 93). Thus, the networks and domains often described as new spaces of sovereignty or emergent... | |
 | Francisco Valdes, Jerome Mccristal Culp, Angela Harris - 2002 - 466 pages
...Foucault, does not exist solely in the "negative and emaciated form of prohibition."56 Rather, power is "the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."57 There is nothing about race that is separate from this complex strategic situation. What... | |
 | Terence Allan Crowley, Terry Crowley - 2003 - 358 pages
...various knowledge communities, French intellectual Michel Foucault def1ned the concept more broadly: 'power is not an institution, and not a structure;...to a complex strategical situation in a particular society." Power is strategic location, but that very positioning cannot be understood without taking... | |
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One needs to be nominalistic, no doubt; power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. 
