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hegemonyPolitical dominance of one power over others in a group in which all are supposedly equal. The term was first used for the dominance of Athens over the other Greek city states, later applied to Prussia within Germany, and, in more recent times, to the USA and the USSR with regard to the rest of the world. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the context of competing hegemonies, moves by VIT to incorporate youth work into the role of trained teachers and school welfare officers could be viewed in Gramscian terms as a form of counter attack from the custodians of the official hegemony and an acknowledgment of the subversive threat of youth work to the dominant pedagogical hegemony currently operating within schools. This phenomenon focuses the work of contemporary novelists who restore the female gaze erased for centuries by respective hegemonies. My reading of Bone exposes the metaleptic maneuver which establishes a fictive effect of authority, the maneuver by which hegemonies are authorized and identities established. |
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