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47 | 2025
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Trials of Authority
Edited by Corentin Durand , Elsa Génard and Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust

What are the relationships between employees and bosses, students and teachers, defendants and judges, officers and enlisted soldiers, children and parents, patients and caregivers, gurus and followers, etc., made of? This issue proposes to begin with authority, a central and challenging concept in modern political thought, and to consider it as a social relationship. Compared to other power relationships, it is characterised by being grounded in a priori asymmetrical participation statuses. By understanding authority as relational work, a test, and a set of sensitive experiences, the articles explore the critical moments that construct, stabilise, and test authority relations, as well as the material, spatial, linguistic, and moral mechanisms that produce and embed them.

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