Domination and relations of force replace juridical sovereignty as the lens on power

Evidence

Boulainvilliers describes the phenomenon of power not in juridical terms of sovereignty but in historical terms of domination and the play of relations of force. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4931

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrast between the juridical model of sovereignty and the historical model of domination — a key conceptual pair for the scaffold.
• XREF: Builds toward later Module 2 concepts: hegemony, biopolitics, and how colonial/Islamophobic power is analyzed in terms of domination. — connects to: The invisible hand doctrine functions to disqualify the political sovereign — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1457; The employment relation was defined as the master’s arbitrary power; Sacralized domination gets institutionalized into constitutional and legal ethnic privilege — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 142