SWP 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ryerson University, 4 The People, Body Language
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Powerful within one environment but not in another (i. e. swp 335 class and. Ryerson university: silence or questions/being vocal can be resistance, different interpretations and reasons for people(cid:859)s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:894)e(cid:454). tu(cid:396)(cid:374) a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d fo(cid:396) vulnerability or protection). Wrong compliance: body language can say a lot, power with/power over, privilege. Fook, 2012, chapter 4: power: power can be positive or negative, possibilities and dangers. 1988, p. 123: something that is exercise from the top down (repressive) or from the bottom up (productive power) (food, 2002; healy, 2000) Modernism: universal truth, scientific, objective, measurable, fixed categories. 2: linear, concept of power seen as possessed, a commodity, occurs within binaries. Problems in conceptions of power and empowerment: five major modernist conceptions of power, power as a commodity material entity which can be traded or given away, always as the expense of another. 3: commodified notion of infinite power so that only one group can be empowered.
