Abstract
By giving a central place to ‘insidious leniencies’ and tackling head-on the problematics of legitimacy and intentionality on the basis of economic practices and imaginaires, my analysis goes beyond the traditional issues of violence and fear. My work challenges the totalitarian hypothesis, the idea of a regime or a state capable to control, dominate and, if necessary, to suppress; it also challenges the idea that actors have clearly defined unambiguous visions and strategies they pursue with a specific intention. The reading put forward here allows for subtler analyses of the exercise of domination, highlighting the complex ways in which hegemony is constructed, beyond general and all-inclusive considerations on support or opposition, on the use of force or persuasion, on the existence or absence of coercion. Two dimensions seem particularly important to me in the contemporary discussions and are developed in this conclusion. The first refers to the delicate positioning I have adopted that rejects Manichean analyses in order to show the complexity of the exercise of domination, while duly acknowledging the power relations, the unequal relations, the violence of the ‘insidious leniencies’ and coercion. The second dimension is the benefit of a comparative approach that highlights the mainsprings of the political economy of domination and simultaneously the infinite variations that give an always specific meaning to experiences and offers an ‘inventory of differences.’
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Ben Brick, T. 2000. Une si douce dictature. Chroniques tunisiennes, 1991–2000. Paris: La Découverte.
Browning, C. 2001. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. London: Penguin.
Goldhagen, D. 1997. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. London: Abacus.
Ingrao, C. 2003. Conquérir, aménager, exterminer. Recherches récentes sur la Shoah. Annales HSS 58(2): 417–438.
Ginzburg, C. 2002. The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice, 65–66. Trans. Antony Shugaar. London: Verso.
Camau, M., and G. Massardier, ed. 2009. Démocraties et autoritarismes. Fragmentation et hybridation des régimes. Paris: Karthala-IEP d’Aix.
Dabène, O., V. Geisser, and G. Massardier, ed. 2008. Autoritarismes démocratiques et démocraties autoritaires au XXIe siècle. Convergences Nord-Sud. Paris: La Découverte.
Morlino, L. 2008. Regimi ibridi o regimi in transizione? Rivista italiana di scienza politica 38(2): 169–189.
Linz, Juan. 1964. An Authoritarian Regime. The Case of Spain. In Cleavages, Ideologies, and Party Systems. Contributions to Comparative Political Sociology, ed. E. Allardt and Y. Littunen. Helsinki: The Academic Bookstore.
Harvey, D. 2007. A Brief History of Liberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brown, W. 2006. American Nightmare. Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-democratization. Political Theory 34(6): 690–714.
Robinson, R., ed. 2006. The Neo-Liberal Revolution. Forging the Market State. New York: Palgrave.
Saad-Filho, A., and D. Johnston, ed. 2005. Neoliberalism. A Critical Reader. London: Pluto Press.
Conway, D., and N. Heyne, ed. 2006. Globalization’s Contradictions. Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation. London: Routledge.
Dessert, D. 1984. Argent, pouvoir et société au Grand Siècle. Paris: Fayard.
Hibou, B., and F. Bafoil. 2003. Européanisation: quelles mutations des administrations publiques et des modes de gouvernement? Une comparaison Europe du Sud, Europe de l’Est. Les Études du CERI, 102(December).
Hibou, B. 2005. Greece and Portugal. In The Member States of the European Union, ed. S. Bulmer and C. Lequesne, 229–253. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weiss, L. 1998. The Myth of the Powerless State. Governing the Economy in a Global Era. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Rouban, L. 1998. Les États occidentaux d’une gouvernementalité à l’autre. Critique internationale 1: 131–149.
Faucher-King, F., and P. Le Galès. 2010. The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown; foreword by Jonah Levy. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hibou, B. (2017). General Conclusion. In: The Political Anatomy of Domination. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49391-6_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49391-6_10
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49390-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-49391-6
eBook Packages: Political Science and International StudiesPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)