Discussion
In thinking about the relationship between power and politics, Bauman (2007) discusses how the notion of an 'open society' "now brings to most minds the terrifying experience of a heteronomous, hapless and vulnerable population confronted with, and possibly overwhelmed by forces it neither controls nor fully understands; a population horrified by its own undefendability and obsessed with the tightness of its frontiers and the security of the individuals living inside them- while it is precisely that impermeability of its borders and security of life inside those borders that elude its grasp and seem bound to remain elusive as long as the planet is subjected to solely negative globalization" (p. 7).
How is this narrative playing out right now? Are politics and power as separate as indicated at the beginning of the selection?