Hegemony

Maisuria, Alpesh

Abstract

Hegemony is one the most powerful concepts to understand reality in any social scientist's toolbox. Hegemony comes from the term - hegemon meaning leader. Gramsci’s works presented the provocation: how can power be won, and how can it be sustained. The answer to this question is about the mechanism of leadership. The far-Right and populists have ascended to power through manufacturing leading ideas through culture, media, and education to infiltrate the consciousness of the masses. Importantly hegemony is always open for contouring ideas to become emergently dominant, and this is the optimism that Gramsci provides for social change. The synthesising of culture, common sense, and struggle are elaborated in this entry.

• Online Publication Date: Dec 29, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 30, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 20, 2020
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Pages: 84-92
• Series Title: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
• Book Title: Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility
• Chapter Number: 5
• ISBN: 9780367629564
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6789446
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Reflections-on-the-Language-of-Neoliberalism-in-Education-Dangerous/Themelis/p/book/9780367629564
• Contract Date: Oct 1, 2020