{"id":227,"date":"2017-09-23T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-09-23T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:39:51","slug":"power-second-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/second-blog-power\/power-second-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Power &#8211; Second Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Orwell\u2019s \u201cShooting an Elephant\u201d, both the native Burmese and the British officers have power, but neither group has complete power. It is the partial power held by each group that limits the power of the other. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By virtue of his position in the colonial hierarchy, Orwell has power over the native Burmese. As a police officer, he enforces the rules and punishes those who break them. The Burmese also hold power over Orwell and the other colonial officials. The \u2018everyday acts\u2019 that Scott describe such as spitting betel juice on British women in the market and tripping Orwell in football games erode Orwell\u2019s power. The acts check Orwell\u2019s power but fall short of full rebellion because Orwell\u2019s power in turn checks the power of the natives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ironically, the same partial power also reinforces the power of the other. The natives resent British power, which motivates the small acts of defiance that erode the colonial power. To Orwell, the shooting of the elephant demonstrated the passive power of the natives, but to the natives the incident reinforced the image of Orwell as a powerful, armed colonial authority. In this way the partial power dynamic is self-enforcing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Orwell\u2019s \u201cShooting an Elephant\u201d, both the native Burmese and the British officers have power, but neither group has complete power. It is the partial power held by each group that limits the power of the other. By virtue of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/second-blog-power\/power-second-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1752,"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-227","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\/227","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\/1752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}