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1 Power In this chapter I want to explore a selection of the numerous and wideranging issues that are to do, directly or otherwise, with the ‘power’ of the media. Research into the various aspects of power, and arguments about it, have always been at the centre of academic interest in media. Sometimes, the focus has been on ‘influence and effects’, a concern with the measurable consequences of output for the perceptions and attitudes of media readerships and audiences. This is the strongest strand of international research, operating across a wide variety of
2 Power T H E P R E V I O U S chapter explored the ‘postmodern condition’ and, particularly, its implications for politics. I suggested that postmodernity is fundamentally ambiguous in its effects, and can give rise to different forms of politics, whether progressive, reactionary or simply nihilistic. Its motifs of difference, fragmentation and flux, and its questioning of the ‘metanarrative’ can, on the one hand, lead to either a radical displacement of social identities, institutions and discourses, and on the other, to a paranoid desire to cling to them
power 7 Power Da women den could do laek men. (Shetland Archive, 3/1/124: Katie Inkster) isitors to shetland in the nineteenth century regarded the women they encountered as subordinate and put-upon. But at the same time they admired their physical and mental strength. Outsiders understood that this society could not be compared with other rural communities in other parts of the British Isles, and they frequently used the iconic crofting and knitting female as a symbolic means of conveying this difference. Implicit in their descriptions of women was an
4 Neoclassical realism and power Brian C. Schmidt and Thomas Juneau Realists are the theorists of power politics; the role of power has been, and continues to be, central to any theory of realism. As a relatively young school of thought within the broader realist tradition, neoclassical realism continues to privilege the concept of power. The fundamental aims of this chapter are to examine the manner in which neoclassical realists conceptualize power and to determine whether they provide us with a new and different way of understanding the role it plays in
5 Ideas of power and the power of ideas Nicholas Kitchen Realism is back in fashion. In the practice of international politics, the liberal interventionism of the post-Cold War moment has given way, post-Iraq, to a more hard-headed way of defining interests and a guarded scepticism of well-meaning world-building. In international relations (IR) theory, too, the ideas of liberalism and to a lesser extent constructivism that emphasized how human agency might shape the world for the better have quietly been replaced by a re-engagement with twentieth
5 The political power of women Having examined official and unofficial political processes in contemporary Latin America in a non-gendered manner, I wish now to tum to the question of women's involvement in politics and the challenges they pose to orthodox forms of political expression and activity. Women played a prominent part in the opposition to military regimes and mobilization for democratic transitions, but how influential have they been in the consolidation of those transitions? Women participated in nationalist struggles in Cuba and Central America, but
Frances Power Cobbe regarded dogs as her fellow sentient beings, with feelings, emotions and consciousness ( Figure 18.1 ). These deeply held views led her to become the leader of the British anti-vivisection movement. 1 She argued that women had a unique relationship with dogs, which came from emotional empathy and common experiences of subordination. She was a prolific author of books, pamphlets and journal articles, and wrote for national newspapers. A strong advocate of women’s rights, she
7 Creating ‘the Party into Power’ project Problems and potentiality From 1994 to 1997, although the attention of Blair, his colleagues, advisers and party officials was heavily focused on winning the election, there was also a continuous private management dialogue on the kind of problems a ‘New Labour’ government could be expected to face. This was inevitably mixed with reflection on previous experiences of Labour in government. Their determination not to ‘go back there’ focused on unrealistic expectations and oppositional instincts in the CLPs, and the
5 Parental power How should we conceptualise parental power and how can it be evaluated? In previous chapters, in the evaluation of parental power I made the case for an irreducible plurality of moral considerations and of morally relevant features. In this chapter, I will examine what is, I argue, an irreducible plurality of forms of power itself. I leave until the following chapter to explore the moral considerations appropriate for the evaluation of its legitimacy. However, in the current chapter, I do go some way towards addressing methodological issues
3 ‘The night’s insane dream of power’: William Beveridge on the uses and abuses of state power Nicholas Deakin This chapter approaches the question of Beveridge’s involvement with voluntary action from an oblique angle, drawing on an experience that he had in the 1930s when engaging in the rescue of academics exiled from Nazi Germany.1 This experience apparently had no direct impact on the production of the report Voluntary action, and there are some reasons to suggest for this. However, my contention is that his concept of the state’s role and both the