0 strong and powerful and therefore able to control others, or relating to the idea that a country is like this: --
The hegemonic struggle is a relatively open-ended process wherein, major socio-economic tendencies notwithstanding, there is a margin for the political.
The persistence of this image of hegemonic rural and urban elites has only reinforced the historic marginalization of groups like the criminal tribes.
In terms of structure and form, however, they had much in common with the hegemonic small-state realistic narrative.
Language is the vessel that steers hegemonic ideas into ascendancy and perpetuates a particular vision of the world.
Moreover, some groups clearly operated from well outside this ' hegemonic ' language however broadly it is defined.
However, in the context of the fraternity they actually feel "liberated" for a while from this hegemonic ideal.
In the hegemonic ideology's stereotypes of dominated groups lies ample room for manoeuvring, manipulation and the eventual formation of rival or occasionally even counter-hegemonic discourses.
In the 1980s it became evident that the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy had become the hegemonic project.
