Title
Domination, Resistance, and Subjectivity
Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8836-415
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2005
Publication Title
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities
First Page
100
Keywords
domination, resistance, subjectivity, social theory
Last Page
114
Abstract
The ways in which something called power/domination/inequality and self/subject/agent interact and shape each other remain unavoidable, indeed fundamental, issues of our era. On one side is a sometimes triumphalist rhetoric reconfirming the competitive, rationalist, and implicitly male individual ensconced in Western liberalism and law. On the other is a series of critiques of the always already fully adult, rights-bearing, contract-making citizen and consumer presumed by liberal democracy and the capitalist marketplace. This paper examines leading paradigms of subjectivity in social theory: the itinerant, unrooted, “disembedded” subject; networked, defensive community members; emergent, newly-connected identities in formation; and displaced, “squeezed”, or threatened subject locations.
DOI
10.1002/9780470996973.ch6
Recommended Citation
Barry D Adam. 2005. “Domination, resistance, and subjectivity” in The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, edited by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 100-114.