Sentence examples for a hegemonic discourse from inspiring English sources

Right now, Ms. Buck-Morss suggests, there is a "hegemonic discourse" -- a dominant interpretation -- that affirms the moral superiority of the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall: totalitarianism was evil and democracy virtuous, and virtue emerged victorious.

We conclude that a heritage-based place identity may be retained, and even enhanced, in the presence of a hegemonic discourse that is underlain by a long-standing preservationist ideology.

Historically, basic signs were used to institutionalize racism in everyday life; reading the words "whites only" created a hegemonic discourse that was much more impactful than merely segregating people based on racial difference (though of course, it did this too).

These rules create a certain kind of hegemonic discourse over how we think and talk about certain people and events like "terrorists" and "terrorism".

This paper acknowledges that the suggestion of putting China in charge of the south-south cooperation bandwagon is likely to fall into the same trap as realists have done to justify domination based on a hegemonic stability discourse s.

Everybody was always "interrogating hegemonic discourse" and so forth.

Until 1978, the hegemonic discourse in China demanded the ethic of frugality, and saving for the future has remained as a feature of Chinese people to the present day (Chua 2000).

We demonstrate how this hegemonic discourse prevents institutional transformations: the discourse becomes reproduced by powerful networks and propaganda, masking new unsustainable realities and by the same token preventing fast and successful institutional renewal.

Such standpoints, arising from the "others" of the traditional subject of the Western hegemonic discourse, deconstruct the theoretical necessity of the symbolic other/the mirror/the speculum,8 offering crucial hermeneutical tools in dealing with the singularian9 multiplication of onto-epistemological differences.

Since marginalized and/or oppressed individuals and groups must learn the views of those who belong to the hegemony, while the ones located at the center of the hegemonic discourse are not required to learn about the margins, they can be considered bicultural, and their perspectives may be seen as more objective.

What's clear is that it's a complicated topic and I believe we're far from discovering real reasons why we keep falling into hegemonic discourse.