controlling process

is the transformative nature of central ideas such as coercive harmony that emanate from institutions operating as dynamic components of power.

Nader defines 'controlling processes' as the 'transformative nature of central ideas such as coercive harmony that emanate from institutions operating as dynamic components of power.' She labels this ideology of coercive harmony as the 'harmony law model, which encapsulates coercive compromise and consensus as a form of behavior modification,' and traces it as a tool of pacification brought in by Europeans as they conquered the Americas.Sidney W. Mintz Lecture for 1995, Current Anthropology, Volume 38, Number 5, December 1997, © The Werner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.a 'This search for 'an aesthetic, fresh and beautiful face for the city' exemplifies what Laura Nader (1997) calls a 'controlling process.' The controlling-processes approach seeks less to theorize power and control as abstract concepts than to focus attention on particular ethnographic, historical, and political contexts (Nader 1997).' (from erik harms)

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controlling process