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posthegemony

posthegemony noun: the theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067.

Noun

posthegemony (uncountable)

  1. The theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067

Origin of posthegemony

From post- + hegemony.

Questions about posthegemony

What does posthegemony mean?
Posthegemony means the theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067.
What part of speech is posthegemony?
Posthegemony is a noun.

Words near posthegemony in the dictionary

  1. posthectomized
  2. posthectomizes
  3. posthectomizing
  4. posthectomy
  5. posthegemonic
  6. posthegemony
  7. posthemiplegic
  8. posthemorrhagic
  9. posthepatectomy
  10. posthepatic
  11. posthepatitic

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