Lieux et formes de pouvoir : définitions Cette notion est relativement liée à celle d'espaces et d'échanges. 0 Définition _es...
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Lieux et formes de pouvoir :
définitions
Cette notion est relativement liée à celle d'espaces et d'échanges.
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Définition
_es lieux symboliques du pouvoir créent à la fois une unité natio
ale et une visibilité internationale.
Ils sont aussi les points de ras;emblements, de manifestations publiques contre ce même pouvoir
quand l'équilibre entre les institutions législatives, juridiques et politiques n'est pas respecté et qu'un mouvement citoyen s'engage à
lutter contre un abus de pouvoir.
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Power (n.) [paU(-a)r]: power is the right or the ability to contrai people
or things .
Power can refer to the political contrai of an area or the influence
over other people.
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1.
The representations of power
• Symbolical places of power: the Oval Office and 10, Downing
Street have corne to symbolise the American and the British executive
powers.
ln Americans' minds, the Oval Office has become associated
with the presidency itself, especially since President Richard Nixon
spoke over the phone with the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon .
10, Downing Street is also linked with British Prime Ministers.
• Television has done a lot for the popular symbolism of these
places.
The same President, Richard Nixon, resigned from the Oval
Office and on television.
Yes, PM, a British TV series has dramatised
10, Downing Street.
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2.
Types of counter-power
• The part played by the press
ln the U.S., the press is called the fourth power.
Ever since the
Watergate, journalists have proved able to disclose information, let
alone expose scandais with the Monica-gate.
The American press has
thus enjoyed the heroic image of counter power.
Yet, the poor quality of
investigation when it came to attack Iraq somehow tarnished that image.
Watergate: in 1973, journalists working for the Washington Post revealed that
the Republicans had spied on the Democrats.
President Nixon had to resign.
• The part played by the citizens
Sorne public actions take....
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