The suggestion that duties related to rearing children are down to power relations is moronic. Have they ever observed other mammals in the animal kingdom before spewing such divisive BS?
You are both confused... @Nuno Coelho first of all every species has very different social dynamics and there is very little interspecies correlation. What is the reason the behaviour of different mammals would have any influence on the validity of her specific commentary about human relations? Then second of all she did not say at all that these models of behaviour are "down to power relations". She said there is a relation to power imbalance there which might not seem so obvious, she was saying it as an example of how power dynamics play a role even in situations where people might not consider it right away. (I'm assuming you're talking about the example of mothers reporting unbalanced efforts during night-time childcare) @Abegael Kerns of course there is a power imbalance between a lion and a gazelle but that power is almost entirely unrelated to the topic of the video since predators and prey do not socialise and so it is not socio-psychological power. Physical power and socio-psychological power are quite different
Yeah it does appear that way at first, but that's not actually what she is saying. She is saying that power is everywhere in society. Yet there is no such thing as absolute power - meaning one social group dominates another in every case like capitalists vs the proletariat. Instead who wields power depends on the social context. Sometimes kids exercise power over their parents and in other instances those same parents have power over their kids.
Power relations are everywhere in each and every field of society but pwer is not absolute.. It's interchangeable.. In one Situation a group can be powerful but at another situation and context it could be weak in relation to someone else
Wow.. what a beautiful voice
Very nice, but perhaps ways on how to excercise the power relationships or how to view them would be nice if shown.
B-) great speaker . GOD BLESS YOU
The suggestion that duties related to rearing children are down to power relations is moronic. Have they ever observed other mammals in the animal kingdom before spewing such divisive BS?
"Critical Studies" are moronic.
There are also power relations in the rest of the animal kingdom? A lion has power over a gazelle for example.
You are both confused...
@Nuno Coelho first of all every species has very different social dynamics and there is very little interspecies correlation. What is the reason the behaviour of different mammals would have any influence on the validity of her specific commentary about human relations? Then second of all she did not say at all that these models of behaviour are "down to power relations". She said there is a relation to power imbalance there which might not seem so obvious, she was saying it as an example of how power dynamics play a role even in situations where people might not consider it right away. (I'm assuming you're talking about the example of mothers reporting unbalanced efforts during night-time childcare)
@Abegael Kerns of course there is a power imbalance between a lion and a gazelle but that power is almost entirely unrelated to the topic of the video since predators and prey do not socialise and so it is not socio-psychological power. Physical power and socio-psychological power are quite different
Critical theorists are obsessed with power. And power, for them, is an invisible force that explains everything. It is utterly poor scholarship.
beginning of the video
her: power relations are everywhere.
Near the end of the video.
Her: Power relations are not everywhere.
bruh😢
Yeah it does appear that way at first, but that's not actually what she is saying. She is saying that power is everywhere in society. Yet there is no such thing as absolute power - meaning one social group dominates another in every case like capitalists vs the proletariat. Instead who wields power depends on the social context. Sometimes kids exercise power over their parents and in other instances those same parents have power over their kids.
Power relations are everywhere in each and every field of society but pwer is not absolute.. It's interchangeable.. In one Situation a group can be powerful but at another situation and context it could be weak in relation to someone else