Solo Cultural Festival as an Effort to Counter Cultural Hegemony

Cultural hegemony? Educators’ perspectives on facilitating cross-cultural dialogue

Background We live in an age when education is being internationalized. This can confront students with 'cultural hegemony' that can result from the unequal distribution of power and privilege in global society. The name that is given to awareness of social inequality is 'critical consciousness'. Cross-cultural dialogue provides an opportunity for learners to develop critical consciousness to c...

Historiography of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Cultural Politics and Theories of Cultural Hegemony and Opposition

“Thus the Republic died.” Or so it was believed when the new constitution of 1532 declaring Alessandro de’ Medici hereditary duke put an end to the legendary struggle between the Medicean and republican governments, “the great and memorable drama” of the Florentine Renaissance. 1 Duke Alessandro’s assassination in 1537 and uncertainty surrounding his adolescent and politically inexperienced suc...

Cultural hegemony in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

This study delineates the use of cultural hegemony in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) through the vantage points of Italian critic Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who clarifies domination of the ruling class over ruled class. Cultural hegemony is the mastery of the middle class and governing groups among the lower divisions. Antonio Gramsci declares that the only means of keeping cult...

From the cultural hegemony of English to online informal learning: Cluster frequency as an indicator of relevance in authentic documents

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A 'HEDGE' AGAINST CULTURAL DOMINANCE (A Review of Counter Culture and Cultural Hegemony: Some Notes on the Youth Rebellion of the 1960's by A. Norman Klein)