counter-hegemonic

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The failure of activist groups and projects to widen themselves out, to develop a 'strategic orientation' towards the formation of counter-hegemonic coalitions, was something that I had been moaning about for years.

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  • Though the reality is in fact far more complicated than this brief sketch will allow us to convey, it is of little surprise that Iran's disaffected post-revolutionary intellectuals have since turned to the likes of Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche to craft a counter-hegemonic discourse capable of putting paid to the "totalizing" claims made by powerful elements within Iran's ruling establishment. —  MRZine.org
  • In other words, the order of the resurrection transfigures rather than merely inverts the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic binaries between oppressor and oppressed. —  Inhabitatio Dei
  • When they realised that the Forum had a counter-hegemonic bent, they lost interest. —  IPS Inter Press Service
  • The failure of activist groups and projects to widen themselves out, to develop a 'strategic orientation' towards the formation of counter-hegemonic coalitions, was something that I had been moaning about for years. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • That is what a meaningful pluralism might look like in the 21 st century: a coalition at once counter-hegemonic and positively rhizomatic in character. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
 

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