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A 4 page review of the article by Tommaso Milani. This paper addresses three specific questions that arise when reading this article. No additional sources are listed.
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intent of this paper is to address three specific questions that arise when reading Milanis "At the intersection between power and knowledge. An analysis of a Swedish policy document on
language testing for citizenship". The first of these questions is: Can the operations of power be separated from the production of knowledge? The answer to that question is
"of course. This occurs on a daily basis not just in Sweden where the controversy surrounding language testing as an implement of naturalization but around the world as well.
Power has not prerequisite for knowledge. In fact, power often thrives in the absence of knowledge. The Milani article, of course, argues otherwise. Malani contends that
separating the production of knowledge from the operations of power is an impossibility, that nothing can be determined factual outside the power relationship, and that the discovery, identification, and establishment
of fact (or at least the discursive process surrounding this process) is one of the more tangible aspects of the connection that exists between power and knowledge.
Obviously, the contention presented by Malani regarding the connectivity between power and knowledge can be disproved with even only a brief look at history.
Consider, for example, the period we refer to as the scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This "revolution" was in actuality a struggle against the power
structure of the day that actually thrived on inaccuracies not facts. Consider, for example, Copernicus argument that it was the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun
around the earth as was held by the Church. Copernicus contentions were so astonishing that even he was unwilling to publish them until practically his dying day knowing that
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