The Wherewithal Of Life Analysis

Power, structure and agency all work together side by side to tell a story about someone reality , and the issues that they face that they conceptualize as their norm for living. Understanding how these three concepts form someone reality may be hard from a outsider perspective who is not aware of the social structures and power influencing how people see and function in different societies. These themes show up in The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics Migration and the Question of Well-Being by Michael Jackson, that focuses on three biographies from three men, Emmanuel, Roberto and Ibrahim that digs into the struggles of migrants and how these men handle life and reflecting on their experiences. Jackson writing on their experiences shows themes …show more content…
In the movie there is a sense on power that shows up in response to bombings in how religion, political and even the relationship formed between the United states and the Israel with the US trying to extend their power into Israel is not the best choice. I feel that for the United States to impose their power on others without knowing how the social structures work on neither side is not providing a true sense of agency that was most likely trying to be achieve, but made relations worst. There is a form of agency within religion shown in the film when it comes to pulling on those values to attempt to reach a middle ground of understand and also a huge form of agency is protest that was seen. The protest gather people together but not everyone agreed on that sense and things to some sense got out of hand and put the mothers in danger and other who were protesting in their own form. I found it interesting as religion is a form of power, a social structure to create the house and also can be used as a sense of agency in the movie and how it can provide a sense of hope but also is a power that is being