{"id":217,"date":"2017-09-23T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/?p=217"},"modified":"2017-09-23T17:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T21:24:43","slug":"a-complex-power-dynamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/second-blog-power\/a-complex-power-dynamic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Complex Power Dynamic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Orwell\u2019s account no one has complete power. I would say that the power is mostly divided between the Burmese and the British Raj, while Orwell himself has little power. The Burmese have power over Orwell through (as Scott explained) the little acts of resistance that they perform on a daily basis. However, at the same, to them, Orwell represents the power that the British Raj posses that necessitate these acts of resistance. In this way, the question of who has power is complicated, just as it is in almost every society. No one ever has complete power because of the way that people can resist. Additionally, since power is such a fragile concept, those who \u201chave power\u201d are constantly in fear of losing it. In this way, they do not in fact have complete power. This creates for an interesting dynamic because the Burmese dislike Orwell for the repression that he represents; Orwell dislikes the Burmese for the way they treat him, as well as the British Raj for forcing him to do this job. In this way, out of all three entities, the British Raj has the most power. By playing Orwell and the Burmese off each other, the British Raj maintains its power. If the Burmese and Orwell were to come together, it would be much more difficult for the Raj to maintain order and keep power. However, since Orwell and the Burmese are unable to come together, the Raj remains the most powerful entity in the region. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Orwell\u2019s account no one has complete power. I would say that the power is mostly divided between the Burmese and the British Raj, while Orwell himself has little power. The Burmese have power over Orwell through (as Scott explained) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/second-blog-power\/a-complex-power-dynamic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-blog-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}