Counterhegemony

Hegemony is a term in political theory used to conceptualise power and ideological influence, factoring military might, material asymmetry and privileges of market access.[1] Culturally, hegemony implies consent to values of a ruling body, by granting it with the authority and legitimacy to do so. Counterhegemony, is the challenge to dominant assumptions, norms and behaviors that permit and scaffold existing forms of power. As a mode of political transformation from below,[2] counterhegemony opens possibilities for emergent values, relations and norms to materialize into alternative social organizational structures.


[1] Luis L. Schenoni, ‘The Southern African Unipolarity,’ in The Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2017.
[2] Alex Williams, Complexity & Hegemony: Technical Politics in an Age of Uncertainty. PhD thesis, University of East London, 2015.

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