Methods of Domination

Methods of Domination Power and domination are the driving forces in society. Throughout history, there have always been those in power and those that are dominated. Many tactics have been used to keep this cycle of domination in tact. Two of these tactics are described in Erika Apfelbaum’s Relations of Domination and Movements for Liberation: An Analysis of Power between Groups. Through the descriptions of these methods of domination, the correlation between the methods …

…be by “grouping” or “degrouping,” oppression is easily carried out once the initial seeds are planted. Domination is a vicious cycle that in the past has not seen any semblance of stopping. However in the cases mentioned, it appears that there is a simple answer: do not allow differences to manifest into total isolation from one another. Once the subordinate groups realize that differences can enhance and not destroy, they begin the breakdown of domination.