Is resistance always counter-hegemonic?. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Filc, Dani
• Is Part Of: Journal of political ideologies. Volume 26:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 23
• Page End: 38
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Right and left (Political science) -- History -- Periodicals; Political science -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- History -- Periodicals; Ideology -- History -- Periodicals; 320.5
• DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2020.1825281
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9317

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Current reflections on practices of opposition are informed by the resistance/hegemony paradigm. The shortcomings of the resistance/hegemony paradigm are, as many critics have pointed, both a result of the wide extension and romanticization of resistance, and the mis-construal of hegemony as a top/down process of manipulating consciousness. The present article proposes to address some of the limitations of the resistance/hegemony paradigm by pondering when practices of resistance may be considered part of a counter-hegemonic struggle. To answer this question, it presents a typology of the different forms of resistance according to their relationship with counter-hegemony. This typology is based on the degree to which certain practices are incorporated or tolerated by the hegemonic model; how they articulate between challenges at the symbolic level and challenges to the production and distribution of material resources; and whether there is a process of articulation at play among different practices that may create a collective subject capable of putting forward claims to achieve political power.