Abstract:The Dobbs decision revoking the constitutional legality of abortion in the United States was widely characterized as a use of raw power. That gives rise to the questions: What kind of power is in question? How does the post-Dobbs moment encapsulate a number of hinges between formations of power characterized in post-Foucauldian theory? How is fluency in the combinations of power at work in the Dobbs decision and aftermath enhanced by a vocabulary of such hinges, including “revocability,” “exception,” and “disq… Show more
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