Reworking hegemony in the urban waterscape

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reworking hegemony in the urban waterscape

AU - Loftus, Alex

AU - Lumsden, Fiona

PY - 2008/1

Y1 - 2008/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00280.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00280.x

M3 - Article

SN - 0020-2754

VL - 33

SP - 109

EP - 126

JO - Institute of British Geographers. Transactions

JF - Institute of British Geographers. Transactions

IS - 1

ER -