there is no broad consensus as to whether cohabitation is seriously challenging the hegemony of the legal and social institution of marriage as the proper setting in which to bear and rear children. Some scholars have emphasized that marriage is increasingly being decoupled from the childbearing process (Kiernan, 2001; Smock and Greenland, 2010), yet others have argued that cohabitation is far ...

Since the invention of the Gutenberg Press, the infrastructure of content creation has been built on an industrial model, which has culminated in the current broadcast media narrative hegemony. This model of ‘‘mass media’’ is based on the notion that there is a centralized producer who distributes a large quantity of identical content ‘‘products’’ to a large, mass audience. This structure is bu...

As the title suggests, this book is concerned with challenging the hegemony of autonomy. This is not the first such attack, nor is it likely to be the last. As a challenge to what may fairly be described as the dominant view in Anglo-American bioethics and law, it is a predictable, but necessary part of the cycle of debate, creation and criticism of the way in which society approaches the relat...

This article provides an overview of the way in which post-liberalization urban restructuring is determined by middle class imaginations and lifestyles in Kolkata, India. It charts how the conjunction between planning, politics and private investment made middle class hegemony in the new urban politics possible, and how the processes that have been set in motion create new spatializations accor...

It is well known that ubiquitous use of the automobile has become a threat to the environment. However, humans have also become negatively affected by the proliferation of the current auto-centered culture, particularly low-income minority groups. Those who have access to a vehicle have a great advantage in our society while those who do not suffer in many ways. The current style of American tr...