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Throughout the preceding chapters, power has figured as a central theme. It is the purpose of this chapter to pull together the various (and not entirely consistent) notions of power that have emerged from developments in critical social theory, in order to arrive at clearer definitions of what power is and how it may operate, and to develop a working framework whereby to analyse power relations in theory and in practice.
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Tew, J. (2002). Relations of Power. In: Social Theory, Power and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919908_7
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