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Power, poverty and inequality

 

Autor institucional : Institute of Development Studies
Autor/Autores: Marjoke Oosterom y Patta Scott-Villiers
Fecha de publicación: Noviembre 2016
Alcance geográfico: Mundial
Publicado en: Reino Unido
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Resumen: Invisible power involves the internalised, often unconscious acceptance of dominant norms, institutions, languages and behaviours as natural and normal, often desirable, even if they appear to be against the interests of the actors involved. Acceptance helps to perpetuate an unjust status quo. This aspect of power helps explain how certain matters are, for long periods of time and in many places, not on the agenda for discussion and unchanged, because they are naturalised: unnoticed and satisfactory – the internalized understandings in people"s heads of their place in the world of norms and "the natural".
   

 

 

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