Power: A Radical View

Lukes, Steven

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“…Recent changes in midwifery education in Ireland, locating it within the higher education sector is likely to equip midwifery graduates with a scepticism of truth claims of science and the ability to develop powers of persuasion and reason required for communicative action. Lukes (1973) …”

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Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife

Hyde

Roche-Reid

2004

Social Science & Medicine

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Publisher ElsevierItem record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4187 Publisher's statement þÿ T h i s i s t h e a u t h o r s v e r s i o n o f a w o r k t h a t w a s a c c e p t e d f o r p u b l i c a t i o n i n S o c i a l S c i e n c e &Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife AbstractAlmost since its inception, the concept of modernity was found to display tensions between its emancipatory potential to liberate the human subject from the manacles of tradition, and the application of reason to co-ordinate and control the natural world through scientific knowledge. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 12 midwives about their role in the Irish maternity services and argues that, in a period of late modernity, these tensions continue to manifest themselves in the context of the midwife's role. Although the contemporary period is marked by a loss of faith in scientific truths, widely contested obstetric knowledge and practices continue to exercise mastery over nature while undermining a central feature of the midwife's role-the liberation of the autonomous subject. Drawing on the theory of communicative action developed by the critical theorist Jurgen Habermas, it is argued that the midwife's role in facilitating the autonomous choices of women through communicative action is impeded by the colonization of the lifeworld of labour and childbirth by the technocratic system of obstetrics. Although participants reported that their role involved empowering women and facilitating choices through dialogue congruent with communicative action, data also suggested that participants used strategic communication with clients aimed at achieving particular ends. The use of strategic communication was linked to the way in which the midwife's role is determined to a large extent by the practices and protocols of obstetrics, and also to the notion of client passivity. The instrumental rationality of obstetrics is linked to an outcome orientation to power and money, and a political economy perspective of medicine. It appears that communicative action between midwives and obstetricians is important in bringing about structural changes to facilitate the conditions for communicative action between midwives and their clients. r

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Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife

Hyde

Roche-Reid

2004

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Drawing on theoretical work by Habermas (1987) and Lukes (2005), it has argued that, in parallel with learning associated with resolving overt challenges relating to an organization's economic and technical interests, a great deal of learning occurs at a second, covert level as well (see Table 1). This second level encompasses learning associated with management's efforts to exercise power, and employees' learning from their efforts to protect their interests in the face of management power.…”

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Interest Differences and Organizational Learning

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2017

Administrative Sciences

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This paper argues that interest differences are the key to understanding the nature of organizational learning and the processes by which it occurs, yet the concept of 'interest' is very much underdeveloped in the organizational learning literature. Drawing on the work of Habermas and Lukes, the paper proposes a model of the relationship between shared learning and interests and elaborates on it using a case study of pay and performance management change at a large Australian finance-sector company, DollarCo. The case study provides many examples of shared learning associated with both common and competing interests, including a great deal of learning resulting from tensions between DollarCo's economic and technical interests, on the one hand, and employees' ontological interests on the other. By doing so, it underlines the value of foregrounding interests and interest differences in studies of workplace and organizational learning and raises questions about the extent to which many published accounts of so-called 'organizational' learning are actually describing 'shared interest group' learning.

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“…But for the moment, the use of the concept itself can be justified (in keeping with the abductive style of this analysis) as a heuristic for addressing a relational process, rather than a fixed framework for addressing a static category. In other work in this vein, democracy has been characterised as a continual open-ended process of struggle by the least powerful to the capabilities for 11 challenging power (Stirling, 2014) Drawing on a wide literature (Bourdieu, 1998;Gramsci, 1971;Luhmann, 1995;Lukes, 2005;Sen, 2000;Simon, 1991;VeneKlasen & Miller, 2002), this addresses 'power' in all its diverse and multidimensional forms as 'asymmetrically structuring agency' (Stirling, 2014b). So, the use of the concept of democracy here does not invoke a singular apparently straightforward category.…”

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“…Perhaps the most fruitful way to approach this challenge is to focus at root on the many complex dimensions and modalities associated with diverse dynamics of power (Bourdieu, 1998;Gramsci, 1971;Luhmann, 1995;Lukes, 2005;Sen, 2000;Simon, 1991;VeneKlasen & Miller, 2002). This may help sharpen analytical resolution -and avoid romanticism or special pleading concerning particular normative notions or claims around democracy.…”

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Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

Johnstone

Stirling

2015

SSRN Journal

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SWPS 2015-18 ( June) DisclaimerThe works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers shall be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to one of the Editors, who will process them and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor. Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process. AbstractThis paper focuses on arguably the single most striking contrast in contemporary major energy politics in Europe (and even the developed world as a whole): the starkly differing civil nuclear policies of Germany and the UK. Germany is seeking entirely to phase out nuclear power by 2022. Yet the UK advocates a 'nuclear renaissance', promoting the most ambitious new nuclear construction programme in Western Europe. Here, this paper poses a simple yet quite fundamental question: what are the particular divergent conditions most strongly implicated in the contrasting developments in these two countries. With nuclear playing such an iconic role in historical discussions over technological continuity and transformation, answering this may assist in wider understandings of sociotechnical incumbency and discontinuity in the burgeoning field of 'sustainability transitions'. To this end, an 'abductive' approach is taken: deploying nine potentially relevant criteria for understanding the different directions pursued in Germany and the UK. Together constituted by 30 parameters spanning literatures related to socio-technical regimes in general as well as nuclear technology in particular, the criteria are divided into those that are 'internal' and 'external' to the 'focal regime configuration' of nuclear power and associated 'challenger technologies' like renewables. It is 'internal' criteria that are emphasised in conventional sociotechnical regime theory, with 'external' criteria relatively less well explored. Asking under each criterion whether attempted discontinuation of nuclear power would be more likely in Germany or the UK, a clear picture emerges. 'Internal' criteria suggest attempted nuclear discontinuation should be more likely in the UK than in Germany -the reverse of what is occurring. 'External' criteria are more aligned with observed dynamics -especially those relating to military nuclear commitments and broader 'qualities of democracy'. Despite many differences of framing concerning exactly what constitutes 'democracy', a rich political science literature on t...

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Power: A Radical View

Cited by 899 publications

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Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife

Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife

Interest Differences and Organizational Learning

Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

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