Hegemony and Difference in Political Movements

Articulating Networks of Equivalence

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ID6309092
AuthorsMark Purcell (0000-0002-1288-614X, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume31
Issue3
Pages291-317
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07393140903105959
OpenAlexW1966089653
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This article argues that in the context of the tension between Old Left reductionism and the political fragmentation associated with many postmodern and post-structuralist alternatives, one fruitful way to conceive of contemporary political movements is to imagine them as counter-hegemonic articulations of differentiated but equivalent popular struggles, a formation I call “networks of equivalence.” The article also explores the related dilemma between centralization and decentralization in debates about how those networks should be organized. In order to flesh out how such counter-hegemonic movements might look, and to suggest something of their potential, the article sketches a brief case study of a political movement in Seattle that has had some success building networks of equivalence

Decentralization · Dilemma · Epistemology · Equivalence (formal languages · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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