By John Allen
This unique examine explores the variation that area and spatiality make to the certainty of power.
- Explores the adaptation that area and spatiality makes to an knowing of energy.
- Moves ahead the incorporation of rules of house into social conception.
- Presents a brand new figuring out of the workout, makes use of and manifestations of cultural, monetary and political strength within the moment 1/2 the 20 th century.
- Illustrated with instances and examples.
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Reference to domination in terms of the power to command and the duty to obey represents a more structured, authoritarian form of organization which is tightly bound by rules and regulations, and in which there is little or no scope for the influence and interests of independent parties. Thus in contrast to Weber's broad sense of domination, in this more bureaucratic sense there is no question of one party making it difficult for the other not to comply with the first's wishes. On this restricted view of domination, there are no `objective circumstances' which make submission the only realistic option.
In The Limits to Capital (1982), for example, it is the mobilities inscribed within different kinds of capital which are seen to lie behind the uneven character of the built environment, and similarly, in The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), it is the capacity of capital to accelerate economic processes which is considered to have produced the latest `round' of the annihilation of space by time, with the consequent domination of regional or place-based movements by the manoeuvrings of capital.
Crucially, there is no locatable `reserve' or `store' of power available to be tapped when needed. Having said that, power, on this view, need neither be associated with particular interests, nor tied directly to the practices of opposition and domination. The mobilization of resources may take place, as Talcott Parsons and Anthony Giddens have both argued, in the context of simply enabling things to get done. Power here is seen as facilitative, or rather transformative, in so far as it `makes a difference' to eventual outcomes.