In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view of power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a "face," she argues for a view of power as a complex network of social boundaries--norms, identities, institutions--which define individual freedom, for "powerful" and "powerless" alike. The book's argument is supported by a comparative analysis of relationships within two ethnically-diverse educational settings--a low-income, predominantly African-American urban school; and an affluent, predominantly white,...
In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view of power as something powerful people have and us...
Clarissa Rile Hayward Todd Swanstrom Stephen Macedo
Today's American cities and suburbs are the sites of "thick injustice"--unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick injustice is hard to see, to assign responsibility for, and to change.
Identifying these often invisible and intransigent problems, this volume addresses foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. Essays focus on inequality within and among cities and suburbs; articulate principles for planning, redevelopment, and urban political leadership; and analyze the...
Today's American cities and suburbs are the sites of "thick injustice"--unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as ...
