Power mechanisms must be analyzed from below, at their lowest concrete operators

Evidence

It seems to me that we should be doing quite the opposite, or in other words looking in historical terms, and from below, at how control mechanisms could come into play in terms of the exclusion of madness, or the repression and suppression of sexuality; at how these phenomena of repression or exclusion found their instruments and their logic, and met a certain number of needs at the actual level of the family and its immediate entourage, or in the cells or the lowest levels of society. We should be showing what their agents were, and we should be looking for those agents not in the bourgeoisie in general, but in the real agents that exist in the immediate entourage: the family, parents, doctors, the lowest levels of the police, and so on. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 50

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘ascending analysis of power’ method prefigures Foucault’s later genealogy and connects to how Islamophobia scholars trace exclusionary mechanisms through everyday bureaucratic agents rather than grand ideology. — connects to: Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 52; Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73; Analyzing power requires abandoning the juridical-representation model entirely — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 17
• DEFINE: Establishes the methodological principle of analyzing power from below, through concrete micro-agents.

Related

• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty (similarity 0.83)
• Power should be studied at its effects, not its intentions (similarity 0.82)
• Analyzing power requires abandoning the juridical-representation model entirely (similarity 0.80)
• Domination is analyzed via its functioning instruments, not its legitimation (similarity 0.79)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 52
• Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution #expands (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73
• Analyzing power requires abandoning the juridical-representation model entirely #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 17