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De-Facing Power Clarissa Rile Hayward CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS De-Facing Power In this major contribution to the power debate,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 consid- ers 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. is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. This page intentionally left blank Contemporary Political Theory Series Editor Ian Shapiro Editorial Board Russell Hardin Stephen Holmes Jeffrey Isaac John Keane Elizabeth Kiss Susan Okin Phillipe Van Parijs Phillip Pettit As the twenty-first century begins,major new political challenges have arisen at the same time as some of the most enduring dilemmas of polit- ical association remain unresolved.The collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War reflect a victory for democratic and liberal values, yet in many of the western countries that nurtured those values there are severe problems of urban decay, class and racial conflict, and failing political legitimacy.Enduring global injustice and inequality seem com- pounded by environmental problems,disease,the oppression of women, racial,ethnic and religious minorities,and the relentless growth of the world’s population.In such circumstances,the need for creative think- ing about the fundamentals of human political association is manifest. This new series in contemporary political theory is needed to foster such systematic normative reflection. The series proceeds in the belief that the time is ripe for a reassertion of the importance of problem-driven political theory.It is concerned,that is,with works that are motivated by the impulse to understand,think critically about, and address the problems in the world, rather than issues that are thrown up primarily in academic debate.Books in the series may be interdisciplinary in character,ranging over issues conven- tionally dealt with in philosophy,law,history and the human sciences. The range of materials and the methods of proceeding should be dic- tated by the problem at hand,not the conventional debates or discipli- nary divisions of academia. Other books in the series Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón (eds.) Democracy’s Value Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón (eds.) Democracy’s Edges Brooke A.Ackerly Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism This page intentionally left blank De-Facing Power Clarissa Rile Hayward PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia http://www.cambridge.org ' Clarissa Rile Hayward 2000 This edition ' Clarissa Rile Hayward 2003 First published in printed format 2000 A catalogue record for the original printed book is available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Original ISBN 0 521 78079 9 hardback Original ISBN 0 521 78564 2 paperback ISBN 0 511 01694 8 virtual (netLibrary Edition) For Adam,Aidan,and Elias This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments page viii Introduction De-facing power Power and pedagogy “The environment” and the North End Community School The “world” of Fair View Power and freedom Appendix A:Tables Appendix B:Research methods References Index vii
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