Power and everyday practices

Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Part 1: Setting the Stage......Page 13
 Ch 1: Unpacking the Centre......Page 14
  Unpacking the Centre......Page 16
  Thinking about Power......Page 17
  What is to Come......Page 20
  References......Page 22
 Ch 2: Thinking about Power: Exploring Theories of Domination and Governance......Page 23
  Modernism and Postmodernism......Page 24
  Karl Marx: Historical Materialism and the Class System......Page 26
  Michel Foucault: Genealogy, Discourse, and the Productivity of Power......Page 29
  Building Bridges......Page 37
  Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Power......Page 40
  Exercises......Page 43
  References......Page 44
  What Counts as Knowledge?......Page 45
  How Do We Learn about the World?......Page 47
  Being a Critical Consumer of Information......Page 49
  Analyzing Language and Representations......Page 54
  Interrogating Representations and Discourses......Page 58
  Making Cross-Cultural and Historical Comparisons......Page 63
  Study Questions......Page 65
  References......Page 66
 Introduction......Page 69
 Claiming Centre Stage......Page 71
  Introduction......Page 73
  Social Construction Zone......Page 75
  Sex, Gender, and ... Quiche......Page 77
  Power Sources......Page 78
  Colonizing Bodies: Stereotypes, Colonial Rule, and the Sex-Gender System......Page 80
  Hegemony and Normativity: What "Real" Men are and are Not......Page 82
  Conclusion: Losing Count......Page 92
  Study Questions......Page 93
  References......Page 94
  Introduction......Page 98
  Power......Page 101
  The Emergence of Whiteness......Page 103
  The Effects of Whiteness......Page 104
  The Ways of Whiteness......Page 105
  Challenging Whiteness......Page 115
  Exercises......Page 117
  References......Page 118
 Ch 6: Class, State, and Power: Unpacking Social Relations in Contemporary Capitalism......Page 122
  Beginning With the End (Of Class Analysis)......Page 123
  Class, Status, and Stratification......Page 124
  Toward a "Relational" Concept of Class......Page 126
  Class Relations in Capitalism......Page 127
  Class, Power, and the State......Page 138
  Conclusion......Page 139
  References......Page 140
  The Life Course: Norms, Stages, and Transitions......Page 145
  Adulthood......Page 148
  Childhood and Adolescence......Page 150
  Post-Adulthood? The "Third" and "Fourth" Ages......Page 156
  Disrupting the Centre Stage......Page 158
  Study Questions......Page 163
  References......Page 164
 Introduction......Page 169
  Introduction......Page 173
  Science and Power......Page 174
  Scientists are Humans......Page 176
  Scientists are Humans Working in Communities......Page 179
  Knowledge is Social and Material......Page 184
  Conclusion......Page 190
  Study Questions......Page 191
  References......Page 192
 Ch 9: The Culture of Therapy: Psychocentrism in Everyday Life......Page 194
  Normalization and Classification......Page 197
  The History of the Present......Page 199
  Conclusion: Challenging Psychocentrism......Page 209
  Study Questions......Page 211
  References......Page 212
 Ch 10: Going Shopping: The Politics of Everyday Consumption......Page 215
  The Ideal of "Consumer Sovereignty"......Page 216
  Re-Socializing Consumption......Page 219
  The Production of Consumption......Page 220
  Consumption in Context......Page 225
  The Politics of Consumption......Page 229
  References......Page 233
  Introduction: A Global Financial Crisis......Page 235
  The Political Economy of Financialization......Page 237
  Cultural Economy of Financialization......Page 244
  Conclusion: Alternatives to Financialization......Page 250
  Exercises......Page 253
  References......Page 254
 Introduction......Page 259
 Ch 12: The Imaginary Indian: Unpacking the Romance of Domination......Page 264
  Playing Indian......Page 272
  Responding to the White Man's "Indian"......Page 279
  "The Rest" in the "West"......Page 283
  Exercises......Page 285
  References......Page 286
 Ch 13: Coffee and Commodity Fetishism......Page 289
  1. Coffee Production and Power......Page 291
  2. Coffee Consumption and Commodification......Page 294
  3. Coffee Battles......Page 301
  Conclusion: Coffee Business as Usual?......Page 306
  Exercises......Page 307
  References......Page 308
 Ch 14: Tourism: Globalization and the Commodification of Culture......Page 311
  What is Tourism?......Page 312
  Consumption and Commodification......Page 317
  Conclusion......Page 329
  References......Page 330
  Introduction......Page 333
  Nationalizing Homelands......Page 335
  Ethnicizing Belonging......Page 338
  Demonization of (Certain) Migrants......Page 342
  Citizenship and the Making of Difference......Page 345
  Study Questions......Page 351
  References......Page 352
Contributors......Page 355
Glossary......Page 359
Index......Page 387