In this major contribution to the power debate, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges the prevailing view which treats power as something powerful people have and use. Rather than seeing it as having a ‘face’, she considers power as a complex network of social boundaries - norms, identities, in[...]

Looks at why people keep using identities even after the stories from which they were constructed have been rejected, focusing on racial identities in the United States.[...]