Constructing Hegemony

Author : Jürg Wassmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323889
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony written by Jürg Wassmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations, tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights and titles, particularly in Australia.This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region and confidently navigates what had previously been considered uncharted, even unchartable, waters -- that wide sea between the classic ethnography of Oceania and contemporary anthropology's theoretical concerns with global relations and transnational cultures. Its breadth, rigour, and timely contribution to post-colonial politics in Oceania are certain to ensure that this book will provide an enduring contribution to the field.

Author : Eva Herschinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136863117
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Global Enemies written by Eva Herschinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines efforts to counteract terrorism at the international level and drug prohibition policies

Author : Mandla J. Radebe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003814565
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Hegemony written by Mandla J. Radebe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation from decades of apartheid and colonisation. This need for revolution has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalisation of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool and an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests and, therefore, tends to support and promote their interests. This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalisation of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media to articulate the interrelations between the State, Capital and the Media and how commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialisation and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful effect on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Jonathan Smucker
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352550
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegemony How-To written by Jonathan Smucker and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must navigate in order to succeed.

Author : Eva Herschinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136863109
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Global Enemies written by Eva Herschinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and compares efforts to counter both, not only from a contemporary but also from a historical perspective. Utilising poststructuralist theory of the relationship between hegemony and identity, Herschinger argues that hegemony is much more than just the dominance of a single country in international life; rather it is the emergence of a hegemonic order that can best be understood as the production of a new collective identity. Offering an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis, the book explores how such hegemonies emerge and persist in the field of security. This serves to explain the widespread disagreement regarding the fight against international terrorism as well as the successful suppression of counter-hegemonic projects in the field of international drug prohibition. Constructing Global Enemies will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations and security studies.

Author : Mandla J. Radebe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869144586
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Hegemony: The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation written by Mandla J. Radebe and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face challenges in its attempts at economic transformation for the benefit of the majority of the people, who were marginalized under decades of apartheid and colonization. This need for transformation has resulted in various policy initiatives, including the ongoing demands for the nationalization of the economy. The commercial media has a central role in shaping policy debates. But this media is an ideological tool as much as it is an economic resource since it is owned and controlled by people with political and economic interests. It, therefore, tends to support and promote the interests of the owners. This book provides a Marxist critique of the representation of the nationalization of the mines debate by the South African commercial media. Radebe examines corporate control of the media in order to articulate the interrelations between the state, capital, and the media, and the way the commercial media represents, shapes and influences public policy. He concludes that beyond factors such as ownership, commercialization, and the influence of advertising on news content, the global capitalist hegemony has a more powerful influence on the commercial media in South Africa than previously thought.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443770
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of how scientific disciplines have always been informed by politics and ideology on the basis of the Gramscian views in historical materialism, hegemony and civil society.

Author : Andrew Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857732331
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing a Post-War Order written by Andrew Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War. Andrew Baker here examines the expansion of US political and economic power and hegemony during this period, and the extent to which smaller states, particularly Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, contested this expansion. Through successfully outlining and defending their own notions of sovereignty, property and commercial rights, they were able to a make a significant contribution towards fashioning a post-war framework more conducive to states than empires. This analysis of the period immediately after World War II will appeal to researchers of history and international relations, as well as those interested in the political economy of the post-war world.

Author : Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009199242
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Uneasy Hegemony written by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It departs from the scholarship produced on Sri Lanka, and re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci.

Author : Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814460729
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Political Communication in China written by Xiaoling Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry — one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought — against the backdrop of the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation, and political control in China. Sample Chapter(s) Introduction (205 KB) Chapter 11: The Chinese Media in Historical Context (191 KB) Contents:IntroductionThe Chinese Media in Historical ContextUnleashed Forces at WorkManaging the Forces to Stay in Power with LegitimacyNegotiation between the Party-State and Media Organisations“Occupying the Commanding Heights”Conclusion: Chinese Media Reform between Control, Resistance and Negotiation Readership: Students of China/cultural/media studies, political science and history. Keywords:Chinese Communication;Media;Transformation;Political Reform;Negotiation;Hegemony;Legitimacy;Control;Anti-Hegemony;Marketisation;Globalisation;New Media Technologies;Gramsci;GovernanceKey Features:Proposes a new relationship characterised by negotiation between the state and the media as one of the major dynamics in China's media transformationPresents carefully chosen examples of control, resistance and negotiation between the Party-state and the media, ranging from the coverage of the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the earthquake in 2008, the Spring Festival TV Gala, to the latest use of new media technologiesProvides significant insight not only into the transformation of communications and media in China, but also into the nature of the ongoing political reform and the implications for the global flow of information, given that China is poised to become a global playerReviews: “The Transformation of Political Communication in China is a must-read for students of both Chinese politics and the Chinese media. Xiaoling Zhang offers a theoretically engaged and empirically rich account of the fraught and dynamic processes of control, negotiation and power struggle. Integrating critical analysis with detailed case studies, the book approaches the communication system in China from historical, institutional and policy-making perspectives, painting a vivid and convincing picture of the symbiotic and complex relationship between politics, media and governmentality. Zhang's work will lead us towards a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of how power and political control work in China.” Wanning Sun Professor of Chinese Media Studies University of Technology Sydney “In this well-researched book, Dr Xiaoling Zhang examines great driving forces behind the transformation of China's media industry such as marketization, globalisation and new media technologies, and how this transformation has generated the growing tensions between economic growth, globalisation and political control. The book provides the reader with a vivid picture of how the battle between the Chinese Communist Party and social forces is being fought. Dr Zhang has made a great scholarly contribution not only to the field of media studies, but also to other fields such as sociology and political science. I am sure that the book will certainly deepen our understanding of contemporary China.” Zheng Yongnian Director, East Asian Institute National University of Singapore