Power over

This includes such ideas as: force, coercion, discrimination, corruption, abuse, punishment, domination, victimisation, injustice, hierarchical inequalities. Decisions that are made about you, without you having a say in the process. Preventing others from having power or agency. ‘Power over’ can apply to personal relationships as much as it can to politics. As ‘power over’ exists in some form in most countries, the act of oppression is often viewed as acceptable or inevitable.

What do you make of this concept? How do you see it playing out in your life?