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Reworking hegemony in the urban waterscape
Author(s) -
Loftus Alex,
Lumsden Fiona
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00280.x
Subject(s) - hegemony , ideology , argument (complex analysis) , politics , sociology , consolidation (business) , settlement (finance) , gender studies , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , accounting , world wide web , computer science , business , payment
In this paper, we argue that ideology is fought over through lived environments. In making this argument, we build on Antonio Gramsci's writings on hegemony. In particular, we extend the analysis of the terrain over which hegemony operates from civil society to urban environments. Here, we argue that the socio‐natural relations established through everyday activities are crucial to the consolidation (and contestation) of particular worldviews. Overall, we seek to put Gramsci to work in understanding the politics and the possibilities in the informal settlement of Inanda and more generally within post‐apartheid South Africa.