Is resistance always counter-hegemonic

Bibliographic Data

ID6293229
AuthorsDani Filc (0000-0001-9100-1006, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume26
Issue1
Pages23-38
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569317.2020.1825281
OpenAlexW3088187551
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Current reflections on practices of opposition are informed by the resistance/hegemony paradigm. The shortcomings of the resistance/hegemony paradigm are, as many critics have pointed, both a result of the wide extension and romanticization of resistance, and the mis-construal of hegemony as a top/down process of manipulating consciousness. The present article proposes to address some of the limitations of the resistance/hegemony paradigm by pondering when practices of resistance may be considered part of a counter-hegemonic struggle. To answer this question, it presents a typology of the different forms of resistance according to their relationship with counter-hegemony. This typology is based on the degree to which certain practices are incorporated or tolerated by the hegemonic model; how they articulate between challenges at the symbolic level and challenges to the production and distribution of material resources; and whether there is a process of articulation at play among different practices that may create a collective subject capable of putting forward claims to achieve political power

Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Hegemony · Ideology · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Typology · Viewpoints · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Political theory and Gramsci · Social and Cultural Dynamics