Sentence examples for hegemonic in from inspiring English sources

"Our policy makers need to decide if our role is to be hegemonic in order to stabilize the region, or if we want to be just one player," said Adam Habib, a professor of politics at the University of Natal.

Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

They are clearly hegemonic in this regard.

Since hetero-masculinities are hegemonic in the social structures and systemic practices of heterosexism underpinning inequities for sexual minorities, attitudinal and behavioural changes in heterosexual men are fundamental for defining equalities landscapes.

Rhetoric played an important role especially, though not only, in democracies, where discursive norms shaped by the poor majority were hegemonic in public even over the rich (Ober 1989).

Thirdly, since constraints are often set on undesired impacts, the resulting ethical discourse is inevitably biased towards a vocabulary in which risk and safety are predominant, if not hegemonic, in spelling out issues and priorities – what we want.

This paper addresses the governance of transitions to lower carbon cities. Drawing on both governmentality and neo-Gramscian perspectives, we chart and explore the diverse objects, subjects, means and ends evoked as governmental programs, or hegemonic projects in-the-making, are shaped to orchestrate urban carbon governance.

We discuss the practical translational challenges of using gender theory broadly, and hegemonic masculinity in particular, in a Swedish case study, of the intervention Machofabriken [The Macho Factory], and illustrate how the concept is brought to life in this activist work with men.

The whole region more specifically the lower riparian states can be benefited in the long run in this broader hegemonic condition in South Asia.

After 61 years in opposition, it wrested the presidency from the hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party PRIin in 2000 and held it in 2006.

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