Beschreibung:
The papers that comprise this study explore how power structures are created within a society, especially in the realm of the struggle between the social classes. The analyses of these structures extends beyond the political to gender, national cultures, literature and the arts.
Doing politics, doing gender, doing power, A. Krogstad, K. Gomard; ostentation in comparative perspective - culture and elite legitimation, J-P. Daloz; Collective memories at "work" - the public remembering of contested pasts, A.L. Tota; modernism in action - comparing the relationship between visual arts, social class and politics in Israeli nation-building, G. Trajtenberg; national literature, collective identity and political power, F. Engelstad; structural power and the construction of markets - the case of rhythm and blues, T.J. Dowd; paradoxes of welfare states and equal opportunities - gender and managerial power in Norway and the USA, G.E. Birkelund, T. Sandnes.