Throughout the last two decades, discussions around “post-hegemony” have stimulated exchanges different theorizations of “hegemony” and their limits – not only one by Antonio Gramsci, but also predominantly discursive reformulation put forward Laclau & Mouffe. Very recently, a new article Peter Thomas on post-hegemony (2020) is triggering debates issue. In this paper, Thomas’s contribution ...

abstract through the interpretation of texts, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. the main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis on gender roles to decode the main elements of a dominant discourse (preferr...

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) has monopolized intelligence theory. A person's is only measured through the results of tests, which are logical-mathematical, quantitative and linear. As a result, other aspects human neglected. The hegemony IQ theory inseparable from historical, scientific, cultural backgrounds. Historically, indeed first more than 200 years old, starting with Gall's Phrenology.

This thesis is a theoretically guided empirical discussion of fashion and its role within the production of national identity in Germany. In recent years, a new patriotism in contemporary German fashion could be observed, starting with the fashion designer Eva Gronbach in 2001. I will approach the term patriotism with the aid of one of Michel Foucault’s key terms, the notion of the episteme. In...

Using Jordan's concept of authoritative knowledge, this article describes some of the ways that the prenatal care practices of a group of U.S. women help to consolidate biomedical hegemony. We analyze the considerations that the women took into account when deciding whether or not to accept specific prenatal care recommendations as authoritative, focusing on when and how they used their own "em...

The book by Radhika Desai titled Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire and part of The Future of World Capitalism book series, represents a profound introspection, as well as an overview of the most important politico-economic relations in the world, from the late-19thcentury until the current period. This book deconstructs common myths present in the mainstream lite...