Relations of domination are multiple, specific, and reversible rather than unified

Evidence

Our second task should be to reveal relations of domination, and to allow them to assert themselves in their multiplicity, their differences, their specificity, or their reversibility; we should not be looking for a sort of sovereignty from which powers spring, but showing how the various operators of domination support one another, relate to one another, at how they converge and reintorce one another in some cases, and negate or strive to annul one another in other cases. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 62

Categorization

• XREF: The reversibility and multiplicity of domination operators is what later fields (including postcolonial and Islamophobia studies) lean on to avoid monolithic models of power. — connects to: Imperial domination cannot be applied mechanically to texts as their cause; Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests; Domination seeks control while leadership concords interests with other groups (+7 more)

Related

• Imperial domination cannot be applied mechanically to texts as their cause (similarity 0.89)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.83)
• Domination and relations of force replace juridical sovereignty as the lens on power (similarity 0.82)
• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty (similarity 0.79)
• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. #corroborates (0.85)
• Power circulates through networks rather than being possessed by rulers #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 47
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests #complicates (0.78)
• Domination seeks control while leadership concords interests with other groups #expands (0.75)