0 (especially of countries) the position of being the strongest and most powerful and therefore able to control others:
As products of hegemony, they co-opt both elites from peripheral countries and also counterhegemonic ideas.
I have demonstrated that 1980s indie was not simply a space of freedom from hegemony.
By compromising illusion, theatre-in-theround subverts the artistic hegemony the proscenium countenances.
They paid taxes, obeyed administrators and contributed to military conscription, but strived to maintain cultural hegemony over what they considered as their sacred space.
Its hegemony lasted until about 1450 when, during a period of severe drought and cold, its vassals revolted and destroyed the city.
But the ultimate failure of middle-class hegemony cannot be explained by isolated examples of disorderly conduct in the libraries.
The biology of female reproduction is the victim of this new world order, in which machines and chemistry are agents of the continuing male hegemony.
This is not to say that we shouldn't be constantly aware of the dangers of cultural hegemony and homogenisation at all levels of social experience.
