De-Facing Power

by Clarissa Rile Hayward

Overview

In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view of power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she argues for a view of power as a complex network of social boundaries—norms, identities, institutions—which define individual freedom, for "powerful" and "powerless" alike. The book's argument is supported by a comparative analysis of relationships within two ethnically-diverse educational settings—a low-income, predominantly African-American urban school; and an affluent, predominantly white, suburban school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521780797
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/14/2000
Series:	Contemporary Political Theory
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. De-facing power; 3. Power and pedagogy; 4. 'The environment' and the North End community school; 5. The 'world' of Fair View; 6. Power and freedom.

Editorial Reviews

"Hayward provides an important contribution to the problem of how to study the power of norms and institutional structures." American Political Science Review

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