SOCI 3020 Chapter Notes -Hegemony, Governmentality, Reference Range

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3020
• Professor: Amina Mire

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: is an indirect form of government, and of imperial dominance in which the hegemon (leader state) rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather than by direct military force). No country will survive without a cultural hegemony. Contest and inherent contradictions of the racial state. Racial rule caught always in the struggle between subjection and citizenship, as comaroff characterizes the contradiction of colonialism. In the case of racial governance these tensions are resolved pragmatically (p105) Other times threats of violence is used. Racial state defines populations into racially identified groups, and they do so more or less formally through census taking, law and policy. (p. 105-110?) Research question: areas to consider: affirmative action, human rights, war against terror, racial profiling, residential schools. Select items: globe and mail explore this to make this article