Reading Gramsci through Fanon: Hegemony before Dominance in Revolutionary Theory

Ali, Noaman G.

doi:10.1080/08935696.2015.1007793

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“…In his study on hegemony and dominance established through settler colonialism, and the ways in which structural and revolutionary change can occur, Noaman G Ali (2015) looks at the work of Frantz Fanon and Gramsci. Fanon argues that national culture is built on a collective understanding of the struggles of the masses.…”

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“…For nations that have suffered through a settler colonial past, this means bolstering indigenous history, culture, politics, and languages. Like Maira (2018), Ali (2015) points to the value and necessity of "an alliance of subordinate groups" and an understanding of the similar and differing ways they are impacted by systems of oppressions, such as the outcomes of ongoing colonialism, like systemic racism (2015, p.251).…”

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Managing Contradictions of Multiculturalism: Narratives of Belonging and Being Canadian Among Canadian Middle Eastern Women

Mohrdar¹

2022

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This thesis investigates experiences of belonging and being Canadian among first-generation Canadian Middle Eastern women through one-on-one interviews with 13 women. Since the election of Justin Trudeau in 2015, Canada has recommitted to bolstering discourses of multiculturalism. There have been, however, lasting impacts from mainstream discourses that followed 9/11, which positioned Middle Eastern women as imperiled and Middle Eastern culture as backward. Additionally, liberal multiculturalism in Canada has done little to address systemic racism, and instead encourages a superficial level of acceptance. Contradictions of multiculturalism can be found in the narratives of these women, who sometimes repeat discourses that do not benefit them. Conversely, women who have access to discourses that position multiculturalism as ideological, have a difficult time expressing a Canadian identity and display a critical understanding of their experiences. These narratives are considered in a wider context of how race and racism structure Canada today.

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Managing Contradictions of Multiculturalism: Narratives of Belonging and Being Canadian Among Canadian Middle Eastern Women

Mohrdar¹

2022

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“…Gramsci contrasted ‘hegemony’ with its related concept of ‘dominance’, where the latter was a political practice that overwhelmingly relied on coercion. In a colonial context where the state relied substantively on coercion and the consent of a comprador class, this would be better understood as a limited hegemony or ‘minimal hegemony’ (Ali, 2015: 244). I would add that minimal hegemony also includes state violence inhibiting autonomous political organising among subaltern classes, a form of coerced consent.…”

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The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis

Tirmizey

2023

Environ Plan A

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This article examines the formation and collapse of the first global food regime of capital, focusing on the impact of tropical colonies like India. It also explores the role of anti-imperialist movements in this transition. While the literature on food regimes has shed light on the evolution of a worldwide food system, it has overlooked the contribution of South Asia to the first food regime or its struggles against colonialism. This study analyses the Ghadar Party in Punjab, British India, in the context of changes in the global wheat market. By incorporating a Gramscian conjunctural analysis, this article offers a refined understanding of transitional moments. It investigates why Punjab shifted from being a significant wheat exporter to Britain in the 1870s to primarily producing for the Indian domestic market by the 1920s. The article concludes that the colonial state implemented targeted policies to mitigate resistance from anti-imperialist movements, such as the Ghadar Party. These policies aimed to delink domestic wheat production from the global market due to subsistence crises related to the global food system. Lastly, the article outlines a method to analyse the link between place-based struggles and structural crises in a global food regime.

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“…The manner of KICTANet inclusion into the WSIS process on the one hand is an ideal case of how power and legitimacy can be accrued through 132 collective action and association. From another vantage point it illustrates how consent can be manufactured (Ali, 2015;Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1999;Burawoy, 1979).…”

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Fabricating Silicon Savannah

Wahome

2023

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This PhD research thesis offers an historicised account of Silicon Savannah, a digital technology entrepreneurship arena in Nairobi, Kenya. Silicon Savannah is an opportunity to study the appropriation of technology innovation and commercialisation models in a lower income, developing economy. Fieldwork took place over 2015-6, a period when this embryonic 'arena of development ' (Jorgensen and Sorensen, 1999) is subject to scrutiny about its high, but largely unverified, hyped expectations. As a result, this thesis dwells on how actors develop strategies to adopt and adapt to processes over which they have no discretion.Actors in Silicon Savannah individually and collectively develop strategies and gaming systems for enacting legitimacy and attracting resources. The analytical frame reveals a dimension of persistent colonial modality inherent in the practice of global capitalism of which the digital economy and ICT developmental projects are a part. This is indicated in policy discourses of digital entrepreneurship that disclaim alternatives and multiplicities, and take for granted that there is a standardised typology of progress. The result is a paradox where entrepreneurs are incentivised to demonstrate alignment with discourses that might not reflect their experience.The study aims to produce a 'view from Nairobi' by integrating the interpretive frameworks of the subjects of the study with the researcher's analysis. Thus, it relies on ethnographic interviews and observations, and historical reconstruction using resources preserved in internet-based repositories like weblogs, emails and social media. Through this empirical work, this study makes several contributions to knowledge: First, it produces a rich historical account of Silicon Savannah as a zone of friction between ecologies of knowledge and practice. In this way, it is conversant with ethnographies of policy implementation and academic research interested in interactions between received prescriptions and local milieu.Second, it its discussion of actors' strategic use of 'narrative infrastructures' (Deuten and Rip, 2000) and engages with the use of narrative in the production of and practices in arenas of 7.3 Performative Technology Entrepreneurship.

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Reading Gramsci through Fanon: Hegemony before Dominance in Revolutionary Theory

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Managing Contradictions of Multiculturalism: Narratives of Belonging and Being Canadian Among Canadian Middle Eastern Women

Managing Contradictions of Multiculturalism: Narratives of Belonging and Being Canadian Among Canadian Middle Eastern Women

The geometry of (anti)imperialism in food regime analysis

Fabricating Silicon Savannah

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