Hegemony

The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social political and cultural theory historical interpretation gender and globalization. The reason that hegemony has been so widely and diversely adopted lies in the unique way that Gramsci formulated the 'problematics' of structure/superstructure coercion/consensus materialism/idealism and regression/progression within the concept hegemony. However in much of the contemporary literature the full complexity of hegemony is either obfuscated or ignored. Hegemony through comprehensive and systematic analyses of Gramsci's formulation a picture of hegemony as a complex syncretism of these dichotomies. In other words hegemony is presented as a concept that is as much about aspiration and progressive politico-social relations as it is about regressive and dominative processes. Thus the volume recognises and presents this complexity through a selection of contemporary theoretical as well as historico-social investigations that mark a significantly innovative moment in the work on hegemony. . Language: English