'This edited book by Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard, with twenty essay contributions from international scholars, is not a conventional easy reader but a handbook that offers many thought-provoking views of power...It traverses an enormous intellectual territory... and addresses many of the complex issues surrounding the visible, less visible and hidden aspects of power...The essays go way beyond superficial normative ideas of power into the strategic clarification of existing debates and new and challanging propositions surrounding power'
Judy Johnston
Faculty of Business, University of Technology Sydney

Bryan S. Turner

The Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College Boston

'This edited book by Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard, with twenty essay contributions from international scholars, is not a conventional easy reader but a handbook that offers many thought-provoking views of power...It traverses an enormous intellectual territory... and addresses many of the complex issues surrounding the visible, less visible and hidden aspects of power...The essays go way beyond superficial normative ideas of power into the strategic clarification of existing debates and new and challanging propositions surrounding power'
Judy Johnston
Faculty of Business, University of Technology Sydney

"Remarkable for its findings and its implications, this book looks at the centrality of power (which can be characterized as 'power over', 'power to,' 'power with') to life and at how people use or surrender to power."

L. Braude

SUNY Fredonia

"I recommend it most strongly and think that it will be very useful indeed. A great addition to the literature."

John Urry

Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK

An incredibly valuable text, I cover power in two of my courses and for those students who have a particular interest in it, I will recommend this as essential reading. Very accessible, thorough and offering both breadth and depth to the topic.

Ms Victoria Pagan

Business School, Newcastle University

May 15 2013

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This is an excellent book - for both referencing and theoretical information, which both undergraduate and postgraduate students can utilise

Mrs Fiona Porter

Dept of Social Sciences & Humanities, Bradford University

Apr 30 2013

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