Essays on Hegemony

Antagonism and Hegemonic Politics: Frameworks for Studying Organizational Change Keywords Institutional theory Actor-network theory [ANT] Discourse theory Antagonism Hegemony Legitimation Ontology [intensive politics] Epistemology [extensive politics] Domination Resistance Potentia Potestas Abstract W. Orlikowski and S. Barley [2001] assess the question of how to study organizing and working practices to review the relationship between organizational change…

The concept of racial formation is defined as a socio-historical technique by which racial categories are created, inhabited, changed and destroyed. What Omi and Winant mean by the concept of “racial formation” is that race is not a valid basis to treat people differently from one another. According to Omi and Winant, racial formation is…

However, recently, the world has witnessed the promptly rise of other new centers with significant powers such as China, Japan, and the European Union etc. , which has actually challenged the hegemonic position of the United States in international system. In the 2011 summer issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Political Science,…

The role of international organization in maintaining international peace and security is a contested issue at the dawn of the 21st century. The future of the United Nations as the only global intergovernmental organization is also unclear now. Numerous voices are heard in support of the notion that the UN has become obsolete in the…

The Development of Underdevelopment by Andrew Gunder Frank – A book Summary In his writing regarding underdevelopment of development, Andrew Gunder Frank has tried to illustrate the history of the development, underdevelopment, and the evolution of dependency to a world system theory. Finally he has come up with some alternatives and has tried to elaborate…

Synthesis on Language and Gender Hegemony is a concept that has been use to describe dominance of one group over the other. There are also several processes by which a dominant culture maintains its dominant position; they can use the institutions to formalize power, the employment of a bureaucracy to make power seem abstract (and, therefore,…