Power – knowledge and hegemony in process of globalization

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Abdolreza bay ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2015-07-06 Accepted : 2015-07-06 Published : 2011-07-23

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Abstract :

Michel Foucault assumes the relation between power and knowledge as a dialectical one. In essence, power creates knowledge and knowledge creates power.According to Foucault, power is a floating and horizontal subject with "capillarity" as its basic element. Power and knowledge are actually createdwithin discourse.The discourse of globalization reproduces power and knowledge within itself. Foucauldian power in the context of globalization equals and conforms to Emanuel Castles' "network society". In other words,"network power" somehow overlaps "network society". The author distinguishes between the situation ofglobalization and the discourse of globalization and analyzes globalization with a discursive approach. The author will   address this question that whether  this discourse deals with hegemonism from the interaction of power and knowledge in the discourse of globalization. Being aware of the post-modernist situation of the international relations, the author of the present research believes that in the discursive struggle, the discourse of globalization creates a kind of power and knowledge which serves to make the hegemony of this discourse operational. on the other hand, within the framework of discursive accentuation and marginalization, every discourse tries to marginalize its rival discourse and regarding the dominant discourse of globalization the strategy of accentuation and marginalization becomes operational. On the other hand ideological forces are at the service of globalization discourse that makes neoliberalism operational throughout the world. In fact, neoliberalism acts as the "nodal point" for the globalization that ascribes meaning to the floating signifiers. since every discourse is to find antagonism, political Islam is defined as the "other" against the globalization. There is a close relation between antagonism and hostility. In the contemporary era,"discourse analysis" can be applied to the international relations.