Subaltern and Subaltern Studies Dr. Abhishek Gopal* ’Subaltern ’ originally is a term for subordinates in military hierarchies which is elaborated in the work of Antonio Gramsci to refer to groups who are outside the established structure of political representation. Subaltern was first used in a nonmilitary sense by Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Some believe that he used the term as a synonyms for proletariat‚ possibly as a codeword in order to get his writings past prison censors‚ while others believe his
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the ancient Mediterranean‚ Rome wins the game of survival and hegemony‚ and achieves a political term‚ which called “unipolarity”. Romans built up the Roman Republic at that time; Roman Republic is seem as hegemony since it shows the aggressive to his weaker neighbors and Greece. Many modern studies argue that Roman Republic is an informal empire based on its legal system and administrative. Finally‚ this study suggests that the hegemony and the complex politics give the foundation of the Roman Empire
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Name: Sayed Jamaluddin Firozi‚ St no: 1B1019 Great power hegemony There is a question that which system (empire‚ balance of power‚ concert of power or great power hegemony) provides the best conditions for advancing peace‚ prosperity and civilization? There are several opinions about the advantages and disadvantages of each system and the functions‚ abilities and disabilities of them to maintaining the peace and stability in international arena. But I want to argue on hegemonic power
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However this essay tries to prove and explain the importance and significant impacts in feminists’ views and how those views are diverse in different regions around the world in reference to the prolific writer Caren Kaplan and her essay: Scattered Hegemonies. In Kaplan’s Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity‚ Kaplan along with her research group “were looking for ways to broaden and deepen the analysis of gender in relation to a multiplicity of issues that affect
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To understand counter-hegemony one must first all have a clue what hegemony is. Well‚ according to Gramsci (1971)‚ hegemony is that cultural leadership that is usually exercised by the ruling class. In this essence‚ the dominants order is sustained by the intellectuals. This is done by popularizing and creating a world view to convince the oppressed that their live in subordination arena is inevitable‚ just and appropriate. So with that idea‚ counter-hegemony can be explained as that attempt to dismantle
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Absence of Formative Education and Hegemony in the novel Brave New World Education with respect to its definition in the oxford dictionary “as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction‚ especially at a school or university” has been acknowledged as an important tool capable of either propagating cultural hegemony or rebelling against it. Antonio Gramsci‚ the Italian philosopher‚ who exposed the relationship between education and cultural hegemony in his work Prison Notebooks (original
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The rise and fall of US hegemony A Review of Some Related Literature Table of contents ABSTRACT 1 MAIN PAPER I. INTRODUCTION 2 II. EMPIRICAL LITERATURE REVIEW 3 III. DISCUSSION 7 IV. CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCES ABSTRACT Scholars like Johan Galtung‚ Robert Gilpin and Noam Chomsky greatly influenced the background ideas of this paper. Most of the cases the author argues come and are mostly based from the books of the said scholars. Galtung discusses
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(DSTEM) Hegemony hides under the guise of many names. In his book the seventeen irrefutable laws of teamwork John Maxwell identifies the term “group think”‚ and warns against its power to blind productivity and narrow the focus of a team(Maxwell‚ 2001). He suggests that in every meeting there should be someone assigned the task of maintaining a view of opposition to the rest of the group. This form of hegemony is pretty easily identifiable for business majors‚ however Hegemony in science technology
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During the last 24 hours of Rizal’s life‚ he was meeting visitors in his cell in fort Santiago‚ Where he is secretly finishing his farewell poem. He is also destined to die for his beloved country which he called “Pearl of the Orient Seas” in his poem and “Pearl of the Orient” in an article “Unfortunate Philippines” in The Hongkong Telegraph on September 24‚ 1892. The Spanish colonial government accused Rizal of two crimes: (a) the founding of La Liga Filipina‚ an "illegal organization" whose single
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Consider the characters of Stanley‚ Blanche and Stella and their behaviours in Scene 1. Using your own words‚ describe whether you think is reinforcing or challenging hegemony in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. I think Tennessee Williams is not challenging hegemony in the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” and it’s maintaining the cultural and social topics of the time. To start off‚ the characters of Stella‚ Stanley and Blanche are showing prejudices and discrimination by their actions‚ behaviour
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