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Counter-hegemony refers to attempts to critique or dismantle hegemonic power. In other words, it is a confrontation and/or opposition to existing status quo and its legitimacy in politics, but can also be observed in various other spheres of life, such as history, media, music, etc. Neo-Gramscian theorist Nicola Pratt (2004) has described counter-hegemony as "a creation of an alternative hegemony on the terrain of civil society in preparation for political change".〔Pratt, N. (2004), Bringing politics back in: examining the link between globalisation and democratization, Review of International Political Economy (), Vol. 11, No. 2, (28 May 2010 ), pp. 331-336, Available at: http://www.jstor.org/pss/4177500〕 According to Theodore H. Cohn, "a counterhegemony is an alternative ethical view of society that poses a challenge to the dominant bourgeois-led view".〔''Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice'', Theodore H. Cohn, Other Paperback Editions, June 2004, ISBN 0-321-20949-4, page 131〕 If a counterhegemony grows large enough it is able to subsume and replace the ''historic bloc'' it was born in. Neo-Gramscians use the Machiavellian terms ''war of position'' and ''war of movement'' to explain how this is possible. In a war of position a counterhegemonic movement attempts, through persuasion or propaganda, to increase the number of people who share its view on the hegemonic order; in a war of movement the counterhegemonic tendencies which have grown large enough overthrow, violently or democratically, the current hegemony and establish themselves as a new historic bloc. An example of counter-hegemony in politics is the "anti-globalization movement". An example of counter-hegemony in media could be a documentary questioning the government’s involvement in a war.〔Cohn, T. H. (2004), Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, Other Paperback Editions, ISBN 0-321-20949-4, page 131〕 ==Origins of the concept== Term "Hegemony" came from the writings of Karl Marx and was conceptualized by Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist social philosopher who lived in Mussolini's Italy. Because Gramsci was a Marxist, he subscribed to the basic Marxist premise of the historical dialectic. Therefore, according to classic Marxist theories, societies will transform over time from oppressive economic systems to more and more liberating ones, until finally the Utopian state of communism in society is reached. In his writings Gramsci claims that intellectuals create both hegemony and counter-hegemony. He argues that "there is no organization without intellectuals," for to be without them is to be without "the theoretical aspect of the theory-practice nexus essential to all effective organizations".〔Simms, R. (2003), "I am a Non-Denominational Christian and a Marxist Socialist: A Gramscian Analysis of the Convention People’s Party and Kwame Nkrumah’s Use of Religion", Association for the Sociology of Religion, Inc., Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 463-477〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Counterhegemony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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