ATS2624 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antonio Gramsci, Global Governance, Prison Notebooks
25 May 2018
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Global Governance – Lecture – Week 4 – Gramscian Approach
- prison notebooks
- how can capitalism be challenged?
- who is leading the international system - determines form of capitalism
- hegemonic system - norms and ideas - hegemony - power of their ideas- norms
need to be consented to
- class power as hegemony
• dominant class power is a combination of coercion and consent - situation
of hegemony
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o consent - secured through ideological means - institutions of civil
society - media, education system, political parties, clubs etc play a
role in promoting a common sense understanding of the world -
domination of the powerful - legitimised
o civil society - struggle between dominate and subordinate classes
over common sense
o meanings are contested by different social forces
• common sense
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o deeply embedded in our minds - how the world should work - cant
imagine an alternative
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▪ radical change - requires more than just a crisis - a
prolonged struggle is needed in the civil society itself - war
of manoeuvre - challenge and transform common sense -
create an alternative common sense - counter hegemony
• integral state
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o politics is what happens in the larger sphere of society - hegemony
protected by the armour of cohesion
o who has power in society
• historic bloc
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o consent produced - through ideological means and certain
material concessions - important in convincing majority of society
that the capitalist system has their interests at heart
- neo-gramscian framework
• different forms of capitalism lead to different forms of world order
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o changes in the social modes of production
o new types of actors
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▪ promote their own model to influence others
• hegemonic world orders
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o hegemony - trying to spread through international system - social
forces - cant simply be imposed on other states through force
o has to involve negotiations and concessions
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