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Journal of Political Power ISSN: 2158-379X (Print) 2158-3803 (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpow21 The contingencies of power: reformulating Foucault Nick Hardy To cite this article: Nick Hardy (2015) The contingencies of power: reformulating Foucault, Journal of Political Power, 8:3, 411-429, DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2015.1099210 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1099210 Published online: 16 Oct 2015. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 1715 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rpow21 Journal of Political Power, 2015 Vol. 8, No. 3, 411–429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1099210 The contingencies of power: reformulating Foucault Nick Hardy* Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada In a critique of Michel Foucault’s understanding of power relations, Andrew Sayer outlined an alternative that was both more conceptually rigorous and offered a clearer analytical framework with which to app...