Dear Ann,
Please would you say a bit more about your interests and how the study of
power and buildings fits into them?
Best regards,
Terry
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Subject: Re: seeking refs on how artifacts (buildings/power) mediate power
Hi Gavin,
Thanks for your comment re the discourse on power, and to others who have
commented and/or are interested in the list of references that might come
out of this query. I'll compile what I get back and post it.
I have indeed spent a fair amount of time "theorizing power first" in the
Power discourses of political science, sociology and even cognition. I
didn't mention this because it goes a bit off topic for the list. Some of my
overview sources for the broader power literature have included these, with
Boulding (the stick, the carrot and the hug) and Scott (force, manipulation,
legitimation and signification) proving particularly useful:
- Boulding, Kenneth. 1989. Three Faces of Power. London: Sage.
- Clegg, Stewart R. 1989. Frameworks of Power. London: Sage Publications.
- Lukes, Steven. 2005. Power: A Radical View. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
- Scott, John. 2001. Power, Key Concepts. Cambridge UK: Polity Press.
- Poggi, Gianfranco. 2001. Forms of power. Cambridge : Polity Press ;
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers.
Overview sources situate the major thinkers (such as Machiavelli, Hobbes,
Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Giddens, Foucault, Arendt, Habermas, Parsons, among many
others) in power into the major strands of power research/discourse.
Since my research concerns activism and social movements, I've also been
looking at the theoretical framework on that side (sometimes called
"counteraction), a region represented well by these overview works:
- Tilly, Charles, and Sidney Tarrow. 2007. Contentious Politics. Boulder:
Paradigm Publishers.
- Traugott, Mark, ed. 1995. Repertoires & Cycles of Collective Action.
Durham: Duke University Press.
- Tarrow, Sydney. 1994. Power in movement : social movements, collective
action and politics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
- Rucht, Dieter, Ruud Koopmans, and Friedhalm Neidhardt, eds. 1999. Acts of
Dissent: New Developments in the Study of Protest. Oxford: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers.
- Jordan, Tim. 2002. Activism!: Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of
Society. London: Reaktion Books.
Interdisciplinary research certainly challenges one's literature review
capacity...
Best,
Ann
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