The SAGE Handbook of Power

505 Pages·2009·6.823 MB·English

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Power is arguably one of the key concepts within the social sciences. The SAGE Handbook of
Power is the first touchstone for any student or researcher wishing to initiate themselves in the
‘state of the art’ in this subject.
Internationally acclaimed writers on power, Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard have
joined forces to select a collection of papers written by scholars with global reputations for
excellence. These papers bridge different conceptual and theoretical positions and draw on
many disciplines, including politics, sociology and cultural studies. The sweep and richness of
the resulting Handbook will help readers contextualise and grow their understanding of this
dynamic and important subject area.
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The SAGE Handbook of
Power

The SAGE Handbook of
Power
Edited by
Stewart R. Clegg
and Mark Haugaard
Introduction©MarkHaugaardandStewartR.Clegg Chapter12©FredrikEngelstad2009
2009 Chapter13©MarkHaugaard2009
Chapter1©GerhardGöhler2009 Chapter14©RayGordon2009
Chapter2©KeithDowding2009 Chapter15©SinišaMaleševic´2009
Chapter3©PeterMorriss2009 Chapter16©AmyAllen2009
Chapter4©CharlesTilly2009 Chapter17©StewartR.Clegg2009
Chapter5©RobStones2009 Chapter18©DavidCourpassonand
Chapter6©JacobTorfing2009 FrançoiseDany2009
Chapter7©RollandMunro2009 Chapter19©KevinRyan2009
Chapter8©RichardJenkins2009 Chapter20©BobJessop2009
Chapter9©JohnAllen2009 Chapter21©PhilipG.Cerny2009
Chapter10©MitchellDean2009 Chapter22©StewartR.CleggandMarkHaugaard
Chapter11©NigelRapport2009
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Contents
ListofContributors vii
INTRODUCTION:WhyPoweristheCentralConceptoftheSocialSciences 1
MarkHaugaardandStewartR.Clegg
PARTI FRAMINGTHEFIELD 25
1 ‘Powerto’and‘Powerover’ 27
GerhardGöhler
2 RationalChoiceApproaches 40
KeithDowding
3 PowerandLiberalism 54
PeterMorriss
4 PowerandDemocracy 70
CharlesTilly
5 PowerandStructurationTheory 89
RobStones
6 PowerandDiscourse:TowardsanAnti-FoundationalistConceptofPower 108
JacobTorfing
7 Actor-NetworkTheory 125
RollandMunro
8 TheWaysandMeansofPower:EfficacyandResources 140
RichardJenkins
9 PowerfulGeographies:SpatialShiftsintheArchitectureofGlobalization 157
JohnAllen
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PARTII POWERANDRELATEDANALYTICCONCEPTS 175
10 ThreeConceptionsoftheRelationshipbetweenPowerandLiberty 177
MitchellDean
11 PowerandIdentity 194
NigelRapport
12 CultureandPower 210
FredrikEngelstad
13 PowerandHegemony 239
MarkHaugaard
14 PowerandLegitimacy:FromWebertoContemporaryTheory 256
RayGordon
15 CollectiveViolenceandPower 274
SinišaMaleševic´
PARTIII POWERANDSUBSTANTIVEISSUES 291
16 GenderandPower 293
AmyAllen
17 ManagingPowerinOrganizations:TheHiddenHistoryofItsConstitution 310
StewartR.Clegg
18 CulturesofResistanceintheWorkplace 332
DavidCourpassonandFrançoiseDany
19 PowerandExclusion 348
KevinRyan
20 TheStateandPower 367
BobJessop
21 ReconfiguringPowerinaGlobalizingWorld 383
PhilipG.Cerny
22 DiscourseofPower 400
StewartR.CleggandMarkHaugaard
Index 466
List of Contributors
AmyAllen is anAssociate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at
DartmouthCollege.Herresearchfocusesontheconceptsofpower,subjectivity,agencyand
autonomyintheworkofArendt,Foucault,ButlerandHabermas.Herarticlesonthesetopics
haveappearedinjournalssuchasConstellations,PhilosophyandSocialCriticism,Hypatia,
PhilosophicalForumandContinentalPhilosophyReview.Sheistheauthoroftwobooks:
ThePowerofFeministTheory:Domination,Resistance,Solidarity(WestviewPress,1999),
and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical
Theory(ColumbiaUniversityPress,2008).
John Allen is a Professor of Economic Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at
The Open University. His research interests include power and spatiality, with particular
reference to topology and scale and issues of urban and social theory. Recently he has
engaged with issues of pragmatism and geography, together with the privatization of
authorityandthegeographyofstatepower.Hehasauthoredoreditedovertwelvebooks,
themostrecentofwhichisLostGeographiesofPower(BlackwellPublishing,2003),which
formspartoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety/InstituteofBritishGeographersBookSeries.
PhilipG.CernyisaProfessorofGlobalPoliticalEconomyatRutgersUniversity–Newark
(NewJersey,USA).HeistheauthorofThePoliticsofGrandeur:IdeologicalAspectsofde
Gaulle’sForeignPolicy (CambridgeUniversityPress,1980;Frenchedition,Flammarion,
1986) and The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of
the State (Sage, 1990). He is co-editor of Power in Contemporary Politics: Theories,
Practices, Globalizations (with Henri Goverde, Mark Haugaard and Howard H. Lentner,
Sage, 2000) and Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Erosion
ofNationalVarietiesofCapitalism(withSusanneSoederbergandGeorgMenz,Palgrave,
2005).Inadditiontothearticlesandchapterscitedinthisbook,heisrecentlytheauthorof
‘TheGovernmentalizationofWorldPolitics’,inKofmanandYoungs(eds),Globalization:
Theory and Practice (London: Continuum, 3rd edition, 2008), ‘Restructuring the State
in a Globalizing World: CapitalAccumulation, Tangled Hierarchies and the Search for a
NewSpatio-temporalFix’,ReviewofInternationalPoliticalEconomy(October,2006),and
‘TerrorismandtheNewSecurityDilemma’,USNavalWarCollegeReview(Winter,2005).
Stewart R. Clegg is a Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and Research
Director of the Centre for Management and Organization Studies; aVisiting Professor of
OrganizationalChangeManagement,MaastrichtUniversity,FacultyofBusiness;aVisiting
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Professor to the EM-Lyon Doctoral Program, and Visiting Professor and International
Fellow in Discourse and Management Theory, Centre of Comparative Social Studies,
Vrije Universiteit,Amsterdam, and also at Copenhagen Business School. He is a prolific
publisher in leading academic journals in management and organization theory who has
publishedalargenumberofpapersandchaptersandistheauthorandeditorofoverforty
monographs,textbooks,encyclopediaandhandbooks.HeisaFellowoftheAcademyofthe
SocialSciencesinAustraliaandaDistinguishedFellowoftheAustralianandNewZealand
Academy of Management. He is also an International Fellow of the Advanced Institute
of Management Research. To his surprise he has been researched as one of the top 200
business gurus in the world (What’s the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best
New Management Thinking by Thomas H. Davenport, Lawrence Prusak and H. James
Wilson,2003).
David Courpasson is a Professor of Sociology at EM Lyon Business School, France
and researcher at OCE-EM Lyon Research Center. He is also Research Dean and PhD
Director at EM Lyon, and Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK. His research
interests include new forms of power and resistance in organizations, the dynamics of
bureaucraticregimesofpowerandofstructuresofdomination.Hehaspublishedextensively
on these topics in recognized journals like Journal of Management Studies, Organization
StudiesandOrganization.Heco-authoredthePowerandOrganizations(Sage,2006)with
S. Clegg and N. Phillips, and authored the book Soft Constraint, which was published in
2006byLiber/CopenhagenBusinessSchoolPress.Heistheforthcomingeditor-in-chiefof
OrganizationStudies.
Françoise Dany is a Professor of HRM at EM Lyon Business School, France. She is
the Head of the research center OCE (Organisations, Careers New Elites). Her research
interests include HRM, and the evolution of the employment relationship. She has done
a lot of comparative research as well as critical research in order to put forward new
insights regarding changes within modern organizations. She has published in academic
journals such as Organization Studies and the International Journal of Human Resource
Management.SheisalsoauthorofseveralbooksinFrench.
MitchellDeanisaProfessorofSociologyatMacquarieUniversity,Sydney,andDeanof
theDivisionofSociety,Culture,MediaandPhilosophy,andisafoundingmemberofthe
CentreforResearchonSocialInclusion.HispublicationsincludeGovernmentality:Power
and Rule in Modern Society (Sage, 2nd edition, 2009 ) and Governing Societies (Open
UniversityPress,2007).Hisinterestsincludetheanalysisofdifferentformsandcontexts
ofpowerincludingsovereignty,biopoliticsandliberalism,andvariousaspectsofdomestic
andinternationalrule.
KeithDowdingistheHeadofPoliticalScienceProgramintheResearchSchoolofSocial
SciencesattheAustralianNationalUniversityinCanberraandwasformerlyaProfessorof
PoliticalScienceattheLondonSchoolofEconomics.Hehaspublishedtwobooksandmany
articles on political power and is editing a two volume Encyclopedia of Power for Sage.
He has also published widely in political science, public administration, urban studies,
social and rational choice theory and political philosophy in journals such as American
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PoliticalScienceReview,AmericanJournalofPoliticalScience,BritishJournalofPolitical
Science, European Journal of Political Research, Public Choice, Public Administration,
RationalityandSocietyandUrbanStudiesQuarterly.Hehasbeenco-editoroftheJournal
ofTheoreticalPoliticssince1996.
FredrikEngelstadisaffiliatedtotheDepartmentofSociologyandHumanGeographyat
theUniversityofOslo.Healsoholdsapart-timepositionattheInstituteforSocialResearch,
wherehewasdirectorfortwodecades.Inadditiontogeneralsociologicaltheoryhisresearch
interests include power as reflected in social elite structures, in industrial relations, in
culture, and in images of power in fiction literature. Trained as a sociologist of working
life,hisresearchisbasedonsurveymethodsaswellasintensiveinterviewsandhistorical
approaches. He was member of the core group of the Norwegian Power and Democracy
Study1998-2003,whereheco-authoredseveralbooks,onworkinglife,business,andsocial
elites.HeisserieseditoroftheyearbookseriesComparativeSocialResearch,andformany
yearsmemberoftheboardofEuropeanConsortiumforSociologicalResearch.
Gerhard Göhler is a Professor Emeritus and taught political theory and the history of
political ideas at the Free University Berlin until 2006. He is currently coordinating a
researchprojectonpowerandsoftcontrolattheBerlinresearchcentre‘GovernanceinAreas
of Limited Statehood’. His research interests include the theory of political institutions,
theoriesofpowerandcontrol,thehistoryofpoliticalideasinmodernityandthehistoryand
theoryofpoliticalscience.Heisco-editorofthecollectedworksofErnstFraenkel,oneofthe
foundingfathersofGermanpoliticalscienceafter1945(6volumes,1999–2008).Hewrote
ontheearlyHegel,Marx’sdialectic,liberalismandconservatisminthe19thcentury,and
institutionaltheory(InstitutionPowerRepresentation.WhatInstitutionsStandForandHow
TheyWork,1997).
Ray Gordon is the Head of the School of Business and theAssociate Dean of Research
fortheFacultyofBusiness,TechnologyandSustainableDevelopmentatBondUniversity.
Hisresearchinterestsincludepowerinorganizations,leadership,ethicsandsocialcontrol
systems.Heisanethnographerandemploysdiscourseanalysis,narrativeandstory-telling
methods.Hehaspublishedextensivelyininternationallyrecognizedacademicjournalssuch
astheLeadershipQuarterly,OrganizationStudies,theJournalofPublicAdministrationand
the Organization Management Journal. He authored the book entitled Power, Knowledge
andDomination,whichwaspublishedin2007byLiber/CopenhagenBusinessSchoolPress
aspartofitsAdvancesinOrganizationsStudiesseries.
MarkHaugaardisSeniorLecturerinsocialtheoryintheDepartmentofPoliticalScience
and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, and was Jean Monnet Fellow at
theEuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence.HeisfoundingEditoroftheJournalofPower
(Routledge).Hehaspublishedoverthirtyarticlesandbooksonpowerandrelatedsubjects,
including the following: Siniša Maleševic´ (co-eds.) Ernest Gellner and Contemporary
Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Haugaard and Howard Lentner
(co-eds.)HegemonyandPower(LexingtonBooks,2006);Haugaard‘ReflectionsonSeven
Forms of Power’European Journal of SocialTheory, (Sage, 2003); Haugaard and Siniša
Maleševic´(co-eds.)MakingSenseofCollectivity:Ethnicity,NationalismandGlobalization