What is it about?
This article is a short commentary on the debate between Lena Partzsch and Achim Brunnengräber concerning the problem of power in the relations between society and nature. More than criticizing certain points of the theory developed by Partzsch and the critique of Brunnengräber, the text tries to include the situation of the Global South with the luhmannian concept of exclusion.
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Why is it important?
Most studies on power relations tend to reduce power to a certain framework, invisibilizing other approaches and therefore phenomena. The holistic framework of Partsch allows for a more complete undertstanding of power. However, effects of exclusion, specially important in the Global South, mostly are ommitted - this text is an attempt to help building a more complete approach to power.
Perspectives
Exclusion and inclusion -as exclusion and inclusion into funcional systems but also into a wider (non-luhmannian) powerstructure- is one of the main topics of my research at the moment. These concepts help to understand politics in a more complete manner, not reduced to a functional system, but related to sociality as such.
Dr. Philipp Altmann
Universidad Central del Ecuador
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This page is a summary of: Macht und Theorie. Wie Macht erforschen?, GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, January 2017, Oekom Publishers,
DOI: 10.14512/gaia.26.2.4.
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