Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 12:27:49 -0700 (MST)
From: AMKIRBY-AT-CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: Power



	In following the discussions on power, I am surprised
	that issues of resistance have not been raised. As I
	noted some time ago, F argued that "resistance is
	never in a position of exteriority in relation to
	power" (History of Sexuality). Power is thus not
	a unidirectional phenomenon, it is a dialectical
	process in which resistance is implicated.  In discussing
	notions of "goodness and badness" it seems to this
	reader at least that the evaluation makes little sense
	unless both power AND resistance are considered.  The 
	thrust of F's work in prison reform and psychiatry was
	very much about what has come to be termed "empowerment"
	and this is the aspect of his work that many of us
	find enlightening.

Andrew Kirby
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute
University of Arizona

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