Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in a Global Field
Social justice struggles are often framed around competing hegemonic and counter-hegemonic projects. This article compares several organizations of global civil society that have helped shape or have emerged within the changing political-economic landscape of neoliberal globalization, either as purv...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Brock University
2007-03-01
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Series: | Studies in Social Justice |
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Online Access: | http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/SSJ/article/view/193 |
Summary: | Social justice struggles are often framed around competing hegemonic and counter-hegemonic projects. This article compares several organizations of global civil society that have helped shape or have emerged within the changing political-economic landscape of neoliberal globalization, either as purveyors of ruling perspectives or as anti-systemic popular forums and activist groups. It interprets the dialectical relation between the two sides as a complex war of position to win new political space by assembling transnational historic blocs around divergent social visions – the one centered on a logic of replication and passive revolution, the other centred on a logic of prefiguration and transformation. It presents a sociological analysis of the organizational forms and practical challenges that their respective hegemonic and counter-hegemonic projects entail. |
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ISSN: | 1911-4788 |