Confronting Domination While Confronting Domination: A Look at the Bureaucratization of an Activist Group and the "Contradictory Character of Social Movements

Author (Your Name)

Brendon M. Smith, Colby College

Date of Award

2000

Document Type

Honors Thesis (Colby Access Only)

Department

Colby College. Anthropology Dept.

Advisor(s)

David L. Nugent

Abstract

I wish to examine the usefulness of hegemony in better understanding situations of domination and resistance. In "Hegemony and the Language of Contention," Roseberry critiques understandings of hegemony as a form of domination and control that implies "ideological consensus" among the dominated. Three other authors from whom I draw, Scott, Corrigan, and Sayer, have all extensively criticized this understanding as well, and Roseberry addresses their critiques by arguing that it was never Gramsci's intent to portray hegemony as the achievement of "ideological consensus." A different approach to hegemony, one that Roseberry argues Gramsci meant to imply, can be of a substantial help in understanding contexts of domination and resistance.

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Keywords

state formation, popular culture, case studies, Mexican villagers, BFC bureaucracy, Yellowstone Bison conflict

Recommended Citation

Smith, Brendon M., "Confronting Domination While Confronting Domination: A Look at the Bureaucratization of an Activist Group and the "Contradictory Character of Social Movements" (2000). Honors Theses. Paper 440.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/440

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