Power includes the ability to define contexts of public life

Evidence

A crucial dimension of power is the power to create the contexts of public life itself. This is the power to create the public itself. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 159

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Arendt’s web-of-relationships power thesis and ties to how groups define civic realms. — connects to: The public intellectual role is inseparable from politics, power, and ethics — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2680; The fundamental form of power is defining reality — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387; Ordinary daily experience is shaped by the political powers that rule it. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 667 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The fundamental form of power is defining reality #expands (0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387
• The public intellectual role is inseparable from politics, power, and ethics #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2680
• Ordinary daily experience is shaped by the political powers that rule it. #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 667
• The liberal public sphere is necessarily structured by power, not merely imperfect #exemplifies (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 897