GEOG 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Cultural Hegemony
28 Nov 2017
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Spatial arrangements and divisions that communicate dominant ideas about society and social order. Cosgrove requires a stronger cultural theory . Culture and consciousness: we reproduce culture even if we aren"t aware of it. Culture and nature: we produce it materially, in the stuff of the world. The study of culture is thus closely connected with the study of power. A dominant group will seek to establish its own experience of the world, its own taken-for-granted assumptions, as the object and valid culture of all people. Power is expressed and sustained in the reproduction of culture. This is most successful when least apparent, when the culture assumptions of the dominant group appear simply as common sense. This is sometimes referred to as cultural hegemony. hegemony accepting things as common sense without questioning them. That does not mean that power relations are not contested. But it does suggest that we can look to landscape .
