Foucault - empowerment and disempowerment
Foucault’s understanding of power must be thought of ontologically; as an investigation of the conditions of possibility. Instead of resistance being understood as freedom, or emancipation from power, it is better thought of as empowerment. There are both discourses that constrain the production of knowledge, dissent and difference and some that enable 'new' knowledge’s and difference(s). The questions that arise within this framework, are to do with how some discourses maintain their authority, how some 'voices' get heard whilst others are silenced, who benefits and how - that is, questions addressing issues of power/empowerment/
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