Knock out debut! It's true that individuals do not experience systems, but you can still gerrymander the field of view down to their level. Power dynamics discourse does not have a coherent response for disputes between individuals. It's obvious who has the power if you draw a tight boundary around a black man beating a white woman, but you'll get resistance over conceding this answer. Instead, the boundary has to be stretched out until you get the "right" answer, until you reach diluted categorizations about race or wealth or privilege or whatever else is lying around.
If the result of the analysis depends entirely on what kind of boundary you draw, then power dynamics analysis is a useless tool.
Knock out debut! It's true that individuals do not experience systems, but you can still gerrymander the field of view down to their level. Power dynamics discourse does not have a coherent response for disputes between individuals. It's obvious who has the power if you draw a tight boundary around a black man beating a white woman, but you'll get resistance over conceding this answer. Instead, the boundary has to be stretched out until you get the "right" answer, until you reach diluted categorizations about race or wealth or privilege or whatever else is lying around.
If the result of the analysis depends entirely on what kind of boundary you draw, then power dynamics analysis is a useless tool.
Thanks so much! Yes, individual-level gerrymandering matters a great deal too.
Great analysis, looking forward to more :)
Thank you!