Category:Domination

The entries below challenge conventionally legible accounts of domination, they characterise the working of informal power and its motivational ambivalence. They show that the complexity of informal practices in the domination mode does not fit the model of a shadow pyramid. Informal power is not merely about informal influence, associated with personal attributes such as family, class, capital, skills, patronage and connections not directly linked to one’s formal position in the hierarchy. Rather, informal power resides in the grey zones between the public and the private domains. Most entries dwell on the blurring of the boundaries between the public and the private and thus present the case for the inadequacy of the public/private dichotomy for grasping symbiotic patterns and complex constellations in present-day societies.