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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138379466
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of ‘authority’. It provides a powerful analysis of the ways that relationships of trust, attachment, governance and inequality become possible when subjectivities and bodies are invested in the life of power. The collection offers a vibrant new analysis of the biopolitical, arguing that ‘experience of life’ has become equated with ‘objectivity’ in contemporary culture and has thus become a primary basis of authority. ‘Biopolitical’ or ‘experiential’ authority can be generated through reference to a variety of experiences, performances or intensities of life including creativity, radicalism, risk-taking, experimentation, inter-relation, suffering and proximity to death. The authority-producing capacities of community and aesthetics are key issues, pointing to vexed relationships between politics and policing, inventiveness and violence.

The contributors develop their theoretical analyses through discussion of a range of specific sites including mental-health service user and survivor politics, biological knowledge, refugee activism, stories of suffering, urban art, anarchism, neo-liberal community politics and marketization. Authority, Experience & the Life of Power challenges thinking on what ‘the political’ is and isn’t, pushing against the all too easy equivocation of revolutionary break and empowerment.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Power.
About
Claire Blencowe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her book Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power & Positive Critique was published with Palgrave in 2012. Julian Brigstocke is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Plymouth University. His book The Life of the City: Space, Humour and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre was published with Ashgate in 2014. Leila Dawney is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton. Her research interests include geographies of affect and embodied practice, performance and landscape, Spinoza and new materialist theory, and the relationship between authority and community.