INTD 397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Hegemony, Civil Rights Movements, Antonio Gramsci
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Hegemony, "leadership, rule" is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others. Spectrum of cs: assumes that it is related to hegemonic and transformative movements ex. Civil rights movements: counter-hegemonic movements (anti-globalization/anti-neoliberalism, gramscian idea of civil society, gramscian italian journalist he was part of italian communist party. His idea of cs can perpetuation of cultural hegemony by dominant groups (dominance by consent: pragmatic behaviour of cs actors= pragmatic collaboration with the state. They can bring structural change because they can move a lot of people. When we talk about cs movements we think it is always counter hegemonic but this is not true. Social movements: coordinated, structured and formal forms of movements. But not all the forms of resistance are like that. Idea of cs= key societal actors perpetuate cultural hegemony in society. 1930 communist groups had difficult time to deal with fascist regimes.